Today, after saving for almost a year, I finally ordered my ARC-1880ix-24!!!
I plan on hooking 8 Hitachi 7K3000 3TB disks on it in a RAID6 configuration.
The main purpose of my home data server is storing all of my Blu-Ray's and DVD's so I can easily stream them to my HTPC.
Now I know a bit about computers and data storage but I'm definitely not an expert like most of the people here
So I wanted to ask if there are any tips on what settings and values I should use to configure this card so that I'm prepared when the beauty finally arrives (order was going to take 2 weeks).
Like I said, I would like to use a RAID6 config and reliability is much more important for me than speed.
I'm guessing speed will improve alot for me since I'm currently running a RAID5 with 5 disks on a ICH10
Also would the 4GB memory upgrade be usefull for my setup and use?
Thanks in advance for any help!!!