Recently I was running a 2.3TB network shared media drive for fellow users on my network. I'm out in Iraq, with a 6 person network. Well I've had nothing but problems with using Intel MB raid 5, and windows vista 64. The MB likely failed and my data is likely lost. So I'm done doing a raid system that relies upon one specific piece of equipment to function.
Now my understanding of unraid is, that the only piece of equipment that makes unraid work, is the flash drive with the unraid OS loaded onto it correct? And you could very easily backup the unraid to another flash drive correct? That way if it failed you could just swap to the backup flash drive.
Here is my current left over specs I'm looking to adapt to unraid.
Intel C2D E6550
Cosiar DDR2 1066 2x1GB
Geforce 7300GS
Samsung spinpoint T series 500gb 7200 rpm x8
I need to pickup a new motherboard, since the old one is junk was looking at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128077
And I would pick up 2x promise 300 tx4 cards also.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102062
Would this be a decent system for unraid?Its only used for media storage and streaming media files.
thanks,
Kip