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07-10-2019 02:11 PM |
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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The computer it is going into has two 1TB SSD drives and 64 Gig of RAM and a fast next gen CPU in the full size tower. It has room for many drives, It ain't no laptop, even for Andre the Giant.
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Ensure the power supply is up to it. And fans. Definitely stagger power-up. Why I still love the old Dell Precision full-size workstations like the T7500; 4 front-accessible 5.25" bays, 4 internal 3.5", 1000w power supply, many fans.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
(Post 10519264)
My goal was to add hard drives as we needed them for temporary storage of files. A single client folder can be over 1 TB of just data. We most the important parts to our RAID after the project is done, and paid for and no more changes likely.
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I despise both Windows and hardware RAID, but you likely have no better alternative. Other than an enclosure that does RAID that also has some DAS facility - e.g. eSATA. Which I would have thought would be ideal. But, literally, the choices are almost endless. And your criteria/preferences are going to be very different from mine.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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The goal now is to find a PCI card that will plug into the motherboard, and allow me to add the SAS drives as a simple data drive, only fast.
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Yeh, they won't be "fast". If you want "fast", SSDs are available in sizes up to 16T now. But these aren't cheap.
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