advice on building a raid tower

Haze420 · 07-07-2009, 08:07 AM

this is my first time trying anything with raid and i was looking into getting a raid tower (drobo or pc-pitstops port multiplier) when people were telling me to just build my own.

im building this tower for my own personal use to store all my music. i was trying to do a raid5 with at least 10tb of usuable space.

could some1 give me some suggestion if buidling this would be better than just buying a pre built one. And if building one is the way i should go i need some suggestions on which motherboard and expansion cards i should get.

Another thing is i keep heard from some people that any drive over 1tb isnt really good for raid bc of reliability issues. is this true?

Prometheus_Fire · 07-07-2009, 08:42 AM

While self building does give you more choice, flexibility and configuration options, it's hard to beat a Drobo Pro for the price.

There's nothing wrong with > 1TB RAID arrays. Probably what you've heard is related to Windows MBR and GPT tables.

Haze420 · 07-07-2009, 09:37 AM

well since your recommending a drobo, do you happen to know if there is an advantage of getting a drobo pro over 3 drobos bc for the price of the pro that comes with 8 bays i could get 3 regular drobos with 12 bays total

07-07-2009, 08:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
Haze420 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2 OS: XP	advice on building a raid tower this is my first time trying anything with raid and i was looking into getting a raid tower (drobo or pc-pitstops port multiplier) when people were telling me to just build my own. im building this tower for my own personal use to store all my music. i was trying to do a raid5 with at least 10tb of usuable space. could some1 give me some suggestion if buidling this would be better than just buying a pre built one. And if building one is the way i should go i need some suggestions on which motherboard and expansion cards i should get. Another thing is i keep heard from some people that any drive over 1tb isnt really good for raid bc of reliability issues. is this true?

07-07-2009, 08:42 AM	#2 (permalink)
Prometheus_Fire Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 134 OS: Win2K, WinXP, Win Vista, Win2K3, Win2K8, IOS	Re: advice on building a raid tower While self building does give you more choice, flexibility and configuration options, it's hard to beat a Drobo Pro for the price. There's nothing wrong with > 1TB RAID arrays. Probably what you've heard is related to Windows MBR and GPT tables. __________________ Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific; Feign do I fathom your nature's specific Exaltedly set on the aether capacious A reasonable facsimile of a gem carbonaceous.

07-07-2009, 09:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
Haze420 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Re: advice on building a raid tower well since your recommending a drobo, do you happen to know if there is an advantage of getting a drobo pro over 3 drobos bc for the price of the pro that comes with 8 bays i could get 3 regular drobos with 12 bays total