electr0n Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I am new to Unraid so these may be silly questions - if so forgive me. ;-) I'm interested in building a raid 5 type media server for movies and music. I have another machine that is running the front end (Xlobby running on Win XP Pro) and I'm pretty happy with that. I'm looking to add a large network attached storage drive(s) that have some form of protection (hence RAID/Unraid) and I would ideally like to break through the 2TB limitations in Win XP. So I would like to know if you think this will work: I would like to use a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R with 6 500 GB SATA drives for 2.5TB of storage. I don't know anything about Unraid but I assume that you are not limited to the 2TB like Windows is. Also I can upgrade at a later date to 750 GB drives when they drop in price to increase it to 3.75 GB total. Am I on the right track? Is anyone using that motherboard with Unraid? I understand I would have to buy Unraid server plus, which is fine. If there is a more appropriate motherboard that is fine too - I just would like to have at least 6 sata ports. Also one final question since I don't know anything about Unraid/Linux. I will still be ripping my movies and cd's on my media machine running XP but I will just map the Unraid server as a network drive. That way I shouldn't have to manually be transferring ripped files back and forth. Is that the way it works? I assume it doesn't matter to Windows if the mapped network drive is windows or linux but I wanted to check. As long as the ripped directory (from iTunes for example) can be on the Unraid server I'm all set. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment
electr0n Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 Actually the ASUS P5B-VM DO looks like a good board too and is a little cheaper - will this one work too? Quote Link to comment
maxbear Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I was thinking this one too. But I finally brought a abit lg-95, I am a bit regert what I have brought, since it only got 4 sata ports. I need to buy a sata controller card now. How about GA-G33-DS3R? It got 8xsata ports, but it's atx. Quote Link to comment
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