Win Building New Server Using Old & New Parts
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Heys Guys,
I need advice on the best way to build a new server . About 5 yrs ago a friend of mine who is an IT guy help me build a media
server . At the time we build it using raid5 with a HP RKTRAID 1820A card , (6) maxtor 250gb drives & (1) maxtor 80gb for the OS .
However, drive # 2 would always die . I used updated drivers and even exchanged the raid card .So after 2 drives going dead i just
gave up . Now that i have so much media i truly need a server . My buddy has moved since then so i have to be the tech of
my house . I'm going to use my old tower case , 600w PSU, Gigabyte GA990FXAUD3 mobo , AMD Phenom II X4 , graphic card
Gbyte HD6450 ddr3 , GSkill Ripjaws 8GB , (1) 500GB WD Caviar Blue , (4) Maxtor 250GB & (1) 80GB for W7 Ultimate x64 .
Raid is out of the equation ! I was looking at UnRaid , but i am unsure with that . I looked it over , but know . Any advice will be
greatly appreciated .

Thanks Undecided
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While I'd always recommend unRaid,....you can do what I did because I was also very skeptical.
Try it out for free.

You can download it, and put unRaid through its paces.
I loaded it up,..killed a drive (removed it) and saw my data was still there,..loaded another drive in,..and watched it rebuild itself.
Another great thing about it is that you can use disparate drives.
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