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Kool3reeze
Audiophyte
now that time is marching forward as is the availability of both storage media and use, I am working up what is necessary to build a RAID 6 system... problem is my ignorance in the area of the necessary hardware and software.
for instance:
I know I want a RAID 6 Media Server. now what? do I, should I, spring for an Adaptec Raid 6 card? I would prefer not to as in my IT career of past I have actually had an Adaptec (two actually) card (scsi) fail on me. (one catching fire) and quite frankly I am not overly confident to put all my eggs in one basket in that regards prefering instead to have a software RAID 6 implementation. ok so if possible... now what? I've looked around the internet and there's a lot of talk but little in regards (at least what I've found so far) in actual specifics regarding a home RAID 6 system build.
OS-
hardware- ( is there a motherboard that can have a single hard drive for boot and then another 6 or so in a raid 6 array? or do I need an internal SATA hard drive card with 6 SATA slots. if so, what card and/or chipset should I look for.)
other considerations-
any input on this system build would be greatly appreciated and I expect since there seems to be a bit of actual information regarding the implementation of RAID 6, which is where many will probably need to head, this should benefit MANY people in the future.
for instance:
I know I want a RAID 6 Media Server. now what? do I, should I, spring for an Adaptec Raid 6 card? I would prefer not to as in my IT career of past I have actually had an Adaptec (two actually) card (scsi) fail on me. (one catching fire) and quite frankly I am not overly confident to put all my eggs in one basket in that regards prefering instead to have a software RAID 6 implementation. ok so if possible... now what? I've looked around the internet and there's a lot of talk but little in regards (at least what I've found so far) in actual specifics regarding a home RAID 6 system build.
OS-
hardware- ( is there a motherboard that can have a single hard drive for boot and then another 6 or so in a raid 6 array? or do I need an internal SATA hard drive card with 6 SATA slots. if so, what card and/or chipset should I look for.)
other considerations-
any input on this system build would be greatly appreciated and I expect since there seems to be a bit of actual information regarding the implementation of RAID 6, which is where many will probably need to head, this should benefit MANY people in the future.