View Full Version : 1TB secure Storage at low price
elec999
03-10-2006, 12:26 AM
Is it possible to create a secure storage system of 1Tb raid5 raid10, at a low cost. I am seeing that most boards now support raid5 using onboard controllers.
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nn_step
03-10-2006, 07:34 AM
define low cost.
because in theory it is possible.
elec999
03-10-2006, 10:47 AM
Around $1000. Including the drives only. Doesnt have to include the board, cpu, etc.
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nn_step
03-10-2006, 11:04 AM
not even a problem infact you can pick up 4 400GB drives and have 1.2TB of space for under $800
Disposibleteen
03-10-2006, 11:19 AM
250gb drives are very cheap right now. You can pick up some decent ones for under $100. Yes it is very possible.
nn_step
03-10-2006, 11:22 AM
250gb drives are very cheap right now. You can pick up some decent ones for under $100. Yes it is very possible.
except for one problem in Raid5 the sum of the storage is (n-1)(capacity) and since nVidia Raid is only 4 SATA connections.. that would be 3x capacity.. so you would need 333.333Gb drives
Disposibleteen
03-10-2006, 11:31 AM
Why do you have to use the Nvidia Raid controller? With how cheap those drives are you can get an add in card that has plenty of connectors.
nn_step
03-10-2006, 11:33 AM
yeah and then you have to deal with the PCI bus Which Kills performance or Get a PCIe card which costs you through the lungs.
elec999
03-10-2006, 11:36 AM
Highend raid controllers seems expensive. The onboard intel and nvidia controllers only got 4ports, I hope the 6port controllers will come out soon, for onboard chipsets. And the 500gig drives are also expensive.
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nn_step
03-10-2006, 11:44 AM
400GB drives are pretty cheap considering.
elec999
03-10-2006, 11:48 AM
Western Digital Caviar (WD4000YR) Raid Edition 2 400GB 7200RPM 16MB Buffer four of these guys. The 500gigs are almost double in price, not worth it for 100gig extra. For the board, I want to go amd, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, is there any cheaper board that support raid5, either for intel or amd.
Here is what I choose, but I think I over done it. I prefer a cheaper board, with pci express, and a get raid controller, and use more drives. I also chose Zalman ZM-2HC2 Heatpipe Hard Disk Drive Cooler is it worth it.
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nn_step
03-10-2006, 11:51 AM
well if you just want 1 PCIe X16 and onboard raid5
my vote strongly goes for the Gigabyte
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128315
elec999
03-10-2006, 12:25 PM
Damn the board looks amazing and its price, no more need for video card. My only concern it doesnt have an extra serial ata, to use for my boot drive.
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nn_step
03-10-2006, 01:39 PM
well you always could just get a cheap IDE HD and use it as a boot drive.
elec999
03-10-2006, 03:49 PM
Ya you are right. Theres no cheap single pciexpress board full atx.
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nn_step
03-10-2006, 04:55 PM
anytime
Hardware-Addict
03-10-2006, 08:52 PM
Hi guys,
I think that you didn't mention that the RAID 5 Parity bits need to be calculated by the CPU ( because the onboard & cheap controllers don't feature any processor ), and that's not the main thing.
A friend of mine tested 4 Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 10 200GB Drives @ RAID 5 on the onboard SATA Controller on DFI LP nF4 SLI-DR and got terrible read/write performance...most of the time worse than a single drive results.
Ofcourse there's a solution,a good SATA RAID Controller :)