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I thought about the same thing too. I'm skirting around what is actually possible at this point in time. I have no doubt that 10 or even 5 years from now, there will be options for an even greater amount of storage and connectivity than ever before. Until that time comes, it doesn't hurt to get...

There are benefits to having a pcie switch. Switches work by multiplexing lanes, much like how motherboards work, except they have a more rigid bandwidth allocation. When one device is using less bandwidth than it needs, it can switch to less lanes giving other devices on the system more...

I'm still researching, but I have a question that may or may not relate to my build. It would be really cool to use my existing motherboard as a pcie switch given how expensive and rare they are [that may be a possibility in the future...

I keep coming back to these two for the enclosure; [SC946SE1C-R1K66JBOD] and [SC946SE2C-R1K66JBOD]. The only difference is between the single/dual expander backplane. If I get 1-2 of LSI 9305-16e for the workstation, then this should work for a das. Does the dual backplane give more performance...

I was wondering about that. A micro atx server board is pretty hard to populate a 60 bay chassis with only 3 pcie slots. I would need a pcie splitter or riser card. The ppt (price per terabyte) is pretty high for the helium drives. That technology is too new. I never even thought about that! It...

That is the main reason I never mess with custom loops. I might do it if I had spare hardware laying around, but I don't. I only build something whenever I need it and I have always gone with CLCs. They haven't burst on me yet :) I think I will hold off on it and stick to air cooling for now...

"You'd also have a great deal of difficulty finding a case that supports two 280mm radiators as well as the SSI-EEB board." Found one: PH-ES614LTG_BK if anything, I can try the coolers I already have just to see if it works or not.

Found 1 answer to my endless questions. “Additionally, Storage Spaces can automatically repair mirror and parity spaces in which a disk fails by using dedicated disks that are reserved for replacing failed disks (hot spares), or more rapidly by using spare capacity on other disks in the pool.”...

Does the Z10PE-D16 have a square or narrow ILM mount? Will the Kraken X62 fit on this board?

On second thought, it might be easier to turn my current build into a workstation and build a separate server instead. I'll edit this post with new specs after I figure that out. edit; Server Core Components E5 1660 V4 – cpu Kraken x61 or H110i gtx – cpu cooler, have both X10SRM-F - mobo...

Storage capacity first, storage performance second. My preferences have changed a little going into this. I'm after reliability to. I can't really afford to lose terabytes of data. All of what you guys have said so far is good advice. I'm still trying to pinpoint "the" build that I'm after and I...

Okay, I have a couple of questions relating to just storage now. What I want to do is; -be able to use my own PSU (optional) -connect more than 24 drives to the LSI 9305-24i -have all of my drives plugged in, so when 1 drive fails in a dual parity setup, storage spaces will use that free space...

I had to rethink my approach. I think you are absolutely right on this. I have a very rough idea of what I should do instead. I'll keep my current build for entertainment purposes because that is what it was built for, and I will build a workstation specifically meant for data management and...

How does this look; Workstation Z10PE-D16 WS Phantom 820 – have 1 2x XEON E5-2687W 2x KINGSTON 128GB 2400MHz DDR4 ECC Reg CL17 (KVR24R17D4K4/128) AX1500i PSU - have 1 2x Samsung 4TB 850 Evo 2.5" SATA III SSD Raid 0 - I'll upgrade to PCIE or something else when it becomes cost effective. 2x...

Sorry I've been mia, I was researching the best ways to utilize the drives (thinking about 2x raid 5 or 6) and I think I am going to have to play around with windows storages pools/spaces. I am especially confused about the differences between hyper-v and v-sphere and which would be a good...