Recent content by tinkerboy

Thanks of all the great feedback. It's really made me rethink the server I want to build. Going back to mkaibear's first comments, I think stability and data security needs to be the first priority for my media server. My digital media library represents a huge investment of time and money...

Thanks for the recommendation. I just looked at the manual online and it does support RAID5.

Being able to dynamically expand the arrray sounds like a great feature. I can save some money on drives initially. Any recommendations on a good RAID controller?

So taking the video editting and photoshop tasks off the table, would you still recommend buying a separate RAID controller, or would the on-board RAID controller on a motherboard like the Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 which has 8 SATA ports work well?

Thanks for the response. I think the video editting and photoshop work is really secondary for this machine. First and foremost it needs to be a server, but, I was really hoping I could use it for ripping, encoding and format conversion as well. Do these tasks conflict too much with the...

Hi, I'm looking for motherboard recommendations for a media server I want to build. I'm hoping to store my entire DVD collection, music collection, home videos, and photo collection on this server. I'm thinking I want about 2-3TB of raid 5 storage. This server would also be used extensively...