About 18 months ago I built a RAID 5 array from 6 Seagate Barracuda 250GB drives and an LSI MegaRAID 150-6 controller that I use in my HTPC. Been working great (knock on wood).
Of course now the drives are outdated and I've filled up the space. So I was looking into building a bigger array and migrating over. 1 TB drives are nice but you pay quite a price premium over 500GB and 750GB. Anand, Ars, and a few others have been recommending the WD Caviar 750GB drive in all of their holiday guides for price and speed (about $150). http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/2007-holiday-upgrade-guide.ars/4 On Dec 11, 2007 7:57 PM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ready to build my NAS. The m/b is a very old Abit BX6 r2.0 with an Intel > P2-450. And I want it to run headless; like a humming box (appliance) in > the corner! I suspect this puts SATA drives out of class ATM, unless I try > some PATA/SATA adapters. This is possible; but was really planning to use > PATA drives due to the m/b's age. > > The OS will be some flavor of the current NASLite series. Can not decide > which version to buy ATM. > > Looking for opinions and/or user experience with the crop of >100GB hard > drives. The plan is to try 4x 500GB drives. 2 hot, 2 as hot spares. > > Opinions welcome. > Best, > Duncan > > -- Brian Weeden
