My first question is what type of files will you be serving? Big ones? If it is going to be straight homeuse, then I suggest using software raid and save yourself appx $300.
There are several large fileservers at my work. They mostly utilize software IDE RAID5 arrays.<BR><BR>Recently, some of them have been having problems. The systems usually have 10-12 drives in the box ...
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Don’t trust RAID 5 with your 20TB drives; use RAIDZ-2 instead
Grow big or go home.
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