Juscuz17

OK! I will start with the build. Case Cooler Master N400 PSU Corsair RMx Series, RM850x 850W GOLD Motherboard Asus Sabretooth P67 Processor I7 2600K RAM 32GB Corsair CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance Pro Series CPU Cooler Arctic Freezer 13 Raid card 8 port 9211-8i 6G HBA LSI in IT mode Icy dock 4 bay hot swap cage 2x 3.5 Seagate 6TB Enterprise NAS ST6000VN0001 4x 3.5 Hitachi 6TB Enterprise HUS726060ALA640 I also have 2x 1tb SSD I may use for cache. 1x WD 3TB that could go in the array. 4x 2 TB Hitachi Enterprise HDD that could go in the array. 4x 1 TB misc drives that I could also add to the array. This will be replacing a ReadyNAS 104 with 4x 3TB drives I have not decided if I am going to use the 104 as another NAS or put the drives in the new tower. I use it to serve movies to my living room TV, and I also want to use it to save the video from my surveillance cameras.

And by new, I mean I haven't even installed it yet. I am waiting for my drives to arrive. I am no computer genius, by any means, but I can usually get anything I need to accomplish. I have been using a ReadyNAS 104 with 4 3TB HDDS. I am upgrading to a tower with 4 6TB HDDs at least to start. Is the lounge the place to post what my hardware, and my needs are for input? Or do I need to post in Hardware? I bought the ReadyNAS, installed the drives, turned it on and it did what I needed so I never went into plesk, or other apps that might have improved the way it worked. All I use it for is to serve media to other computers in the house. I plan to use this machine to serve and store media, and hopefully store the recordings from my security cameras. I went with a I7 2600k, but I don't want to get too far into that if it's the wrong section to post my questions in.