I'm going to be purchasing a storage solution for my home network soon and I'm starting to waver on what I want to go with. So I'd like to hear some thoughts from the community here about my dilemma and what you would do. If you know of a product similar to what my ultimate goal is in the price range I want, don't hesitate to suggest it.
My goal is a solution that will incorporate RAID 5 for the added protection it gives. Final price should be between $700-$800, but preferably less than $700. I want between 3-4 TB available. Performance is not a concern. It's just for file serving. I just need one large repository for a lot of data that is somewhat safe from 1 HDD failure. Right now my data is spread over 7 HDDs over 3 computers with no redundancy or security. So 1 HDD failure right now will result in the potential loss of all data on that drive.
My first thought was to buy this: SANS Digital TR8M-B Enclosure http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16816111051
This would allow me to eventually include up to 8 drives, but initially not needed. This would require software RAID 5 probably done on a W2K3 or WHS server.
After I sat on that for a while, I started thinking about trying to go for a hardware RAID solution. So I found this affordable RAID card: HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16816115029
This would allow me 4 drives which is enough to room to allow me to achieve the space I need. This, of course, would allow me to put together another computer specifically built for this. Nothing fancy as the RAID card would be the most expensive component by almost 2X in my proposed PC. This would also be in a W2K3 or WHS box.
So, what do you guys think?
My goal is a solution that will incorporate RAID 5 for the added protection it gives. Final price should be between $700-$800, but preferably less than $700. I want between 3-4 TB available. Performance is not a concern. It's just for file serving. I just need one large repository for a lot of data that is somewhat safe from 1 HDD failure. Right now my data is spread over 7 HDDs over 3 computers with no redundancy or security. So 1 HDD failure right now will result in the potential loss of all data on that drive.
My first thought was to buy this: SANS Digital TR8M-B Enclosure http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16816111051
This would allow me to eventually include up to 8 drives, but initially not needed. This would require software RAID 5 probably done on a W2K3 or WHS server.
After I sat on that for a while, I started thinking about trying to go for a hardware RAID solution. So I found this affordable RAID card: HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16816115029
This would allow me 4 drives which is enough to room to allow me to achieve the space I need. This, of course, would allow me to put together another computer specifically built for this. Nothing fancy as the RAID card would be the most expensive component by almost 2X in my proposed PC. This would also be in a W2K3 or WHS box.
So, what do you guys think?
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