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XTTX · 06-28-2009, 05:34 AM

Well, here's what I was thinking. The 5 1TB drives will be used for media storage, and the 2 80 GB drives will be used for backup of important data (in addition to disk backup). I was going to do a RAID 1 array w/ the 80GB drives for some extra precaution.

Edit: BTW, for a 24/7 server, is it necessary to have "enterprise-class" or "RAID-class" harddrives? It's about $50-$60 more expensive compared to the normal drive, and I don't really know if it's just marketing or actual reliability gains. I was also considering the Ecogreen drives. Do you think, however, there will be a noticeable performance drop, and if so, would you say the reliability benefits outweigh the performance drop?

06-28-2009, 05:34 AM	#5 (permalink)
XTTX Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: US Posts: 168 OS: XP x64, Ubuntu x86_64, OS X 10.5.7	Re: Network server build Well, here's what I was thinking. The 5 1TB drives will be used for media storage, and the 2 80 GB drives will be used for backup of important data (in addition to disk backup). I was going to do a RAID 1 array w/ the 80GB drives for some extra precaution. Edit: BTW, for a 24/7 server, is it necessary to have "enterprise-class" or "RAID-class" harddrives? It's about $50-$60 more expensive compared to the normal drive, and I don't really know if it's just marketing or actual reliability gains. I was also considering the Ecogreen drives. Do you think, however, there will be a noticeable performance drop, and if so, would you say the reliability benefits outweigh the performance drop? Last edited by XTTX; 06-28-2009 at 05:39 AM.