Hello everyone,
I need some assistance, i have the idea in mind but need some steps and "blueprints" of how to go about this.
I have x4 Western digital RED NAS 4TB drives that are brand new and x1 6TB WD External drive, how would be the easiest way to go about setting them up in my gaming rig/NAS case, i am also going to pay for drive bender and set them up in a drivepool to use them ONLY for my plex media needs. Im relatively new at multiple hard drive setups and i have some questions and would love to hear some suggestions or feedback if im going about this the wrong way.
1) Just daisy up the cables and connect all 4 drives inside my case, connect sata and power, good to go ? (do i need to prepare the brand new drives in any way, format ?
2)Im going to use Drive bender, seems pretty good and simple and a better choice than RAID. (correct me if im wrong).
3) my current PLEX library is 6 TB how do i safely transition these files to the new drivepool without losing anything or making a rookie mistake, simple CUT and PASTE ?
4) i need to transfer the library to the new drives, have them safely backed up, have PLEX read from the new made plex drivepool and ofcourse try and not run into any big errors or mess ups/loss of data.
5) Cache drive ? i have a 128 GB SSD spare drive i could use for it.
My Rig specs:
i7 2600k 2nd gen
MOBO: ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 LGA 1155
128gb SSD OS drive
(OLD 1.4 TB HDD)
16 GB ddr3 ram
EVGA GTX 1070 FTW
EVGA 750 PSU fully modual
Netgear Nighthawk AC1900
Windows 10
USB External WD 6TB (all PLEX media is stored here, almost out of space !)
Thank you all for your help and support.
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I need some assistance, i have the idea in mind but need some steps and "blueprints" of how to go about this.
I have x4 Western digital RED NAS 4TB drives that are brand new and x1 6TB WD External drive, how would be the easiest way to go about setting them up in my gaming rig/NAS case, i am also going to pay for drive bender and set them up in a drivepool to use them ONLY for my plex media needs. Im relatively new at multiple hard drive setups and i have some questions and would love to hear some suggestions or feedback if im going about this the wrong way.
1) Just daisy up the cables and connect all 4 drives inside my case, connect sata and power, good to go ? (do i need to prepare the brand new drives in any way, format ?
2)Im going to use Drive bender, seems pretty good and simple and a better choice than RAID. (correct me if im wrong).
3) my current PLEX library is 6 TB how do i safely transition these files to the new drivepool without losing anything or making a rookie mistake, simple CUT and PASTE ?
4) i need to transfer the library to the new drives, have them safely backed up, have PLEX read from the new made plex drivepool and ofcourse try and not run into any big errors or mess ups/loss of data.
5) Cache drive ? i have a 128 GB SSD spare drive i could use for it.
My Rig specs:
i7 2600k 2nd gen
MOBO: ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 LGA 1155
128gb SSD OS drive
(OLD 1.4 TB HDD)
16 GB ddr3 ram
EVGA GTX 1070 FTW
EVGA 750 PSU fully modual
Netgear Nighthawk AC1900
Windows 10
USB External WD 6TB (all PLEX media is stored here, almost out of space !)
Thank you all for your help and support.
