S i have a quick question about rebuilding two of my trusty home servers of the past 6 years into one unit.. Pretty much i currently have a Windows Box that runs any applications i need 24/7(Torrents, Serviio, Camera DVR Viewer for remote monitor, Media player for backyard audio, Dyndns, etc) and a FreeNAS box. Well both machines are due for an upgrade.. The FreeNAS box is getting full and the Windows box could use a new processor and a copy of Win7. So instead of paying to upgrade both I'm thinking of just building a new rig, installing Win7 Pro, and adding a raid card with some new 3tb drives.
When it comes to the raid, I'm thinking a raid 5 array with four 3tb WD Red drives that way i have some redundancy. This should give me around 9tb of space for all my ripped media, photos, and backups. Can i do this raid in software on windows 7? I was thinking of getting this SATA card for the drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816129087 If not can yall recommend a different 4 port Sata III card for under 150$? Used is fine. Or even any other insight on how i can make all this work. Heck even two Raid 1 arrays would be fine by me if i have to settle for that.
Sorry if i sound like a noob here, I'm a network cabling backbone installer not really a raid guy. The OS will be installed on a separate drive btw.
When it comes to the raid, I'm thinking a raid 5 array with four 3tb WD Red drives that way i have some redundancy. This should give me around 9tb of space for all my ripped media, photos, and backups. Can i do this raid in software on windows 7? I was thinking of getting this SATA card for the drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816129087 If not can yall recommend a different 4 port Sata III card for under 150$? Used is fine. Or even any other insight on how i can make all this work. Heck even two Raid 1 arrays would be fine by me if i have to settle for that.
Sorry if i sound like a noob here, I'm a network cabling backbone installer not really a raid guy. The OS will be installed on a separate drive btw.