-X-hellfire wrote:Nice server you build
How quiet is it?
Its not noisy at all compared to the specs, less noise than a normal OEM pc for the most part, so im happy with that. The Nexus fans on the 4in3 modules are quiet enough, i dont notice them at all over the drives tbh, even at 1000rpm. Having the server beneath my desk certainly helps tho.
Ihmemies wrote:What's the point of 12X1TB raid? Wouldn't something like 3x 4x1TB or 2x 6x1TB be more reliable?
Granted, you'd lose 1-2TB more space, but I would not personally like to see all of the data disappear
when two drives fail simultaneously.
With more than one array you have a greater chance that the simultaneous failures will happen in different arrays, or in bad case you'll lose only one of the arrays instead of everything.
But I suppose that some just like to live on the edge
I'm sorry, what? Living on the edge? nonsense, I have backups.
The only thing thats (imho) better than the current setup is raid6 + eventual hotspare. having several raid5's in one JBOD just makes it a PITA, plus alot of space lost.
My next build will have either a 3ware 9650-16/24 card with raid6 support, or I'll run linux software raid, or WHS.. time will show.
metalheadjoe wrote:cool
Thanks