- May 27, 2004
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This summer I'm going to build a server to host various multimedia files at my school. Last year I just hosted all of my files on my Windows XP machine and it didn't work out (ran out of RAM constantly, and that damned 10 user limit is annoying). So I'd like some advice on what motherboard(s) I should be looking at for use in this rig. Currently I'm hosting 4 200GB hard drives (not RAID). I hope to expand this to about 2 terabytes when I'm finished building, with all drives being 200GB. My current drives are your standard ATA drives, although I'm thinking of going with a SATA RAID, and getting the ATA to SATA converters for my old drives. Also, do you know if those ATA/SATA converters will slow down the transfer rate or not?
I'm not sure if using one of those PCI cards for my RAID will bottleneck the system or not. Last year I normally served about 6-7 people at a time. It's hard to tell what kind of traffic I'll have during peak hours since Win XP capped the max users at 10. But they would max out my 100baseT connection. Next year the dorm should be outfitted with a Gigabit line, and I'd like to have a motherboard and drive setup that won't be afraid to max out this network connection. Any suggestions?
I'm not sure if using one of those PCI cards for my RAID will bottleneck the system or not. Last year I normally served about 6-7 people at a time. It's hard to tell what kind of traffic I'll have during peak hours since Win XP capped the max users at 10. But they would max out my 100baseT connection. Next year the dorm should be outfitted with a Gigabit line, and I'd like to have a motherboard and drive setup that won't be afraid to max out this network connection. Any suggestions?