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Looks good but did you account for the parity drive since you only mentioned 3 Drives? Also, are going to run other programs from your server or usit just for storage? If the later, you may save some money on the cpu.
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Anyone have any experience with Windows Home Server? I'm thinking about setting up a version of it on a new machine to host my media. I'm trying to avoid other software, since I want to be able to easily run other software on the host machine as well. FreeNAS could work, but it sounds like a huge pain to add more storage. UnRaid won't work, since I refuse to give them that $119 or whatever it is that they want so that I can use the number of drives that I want. I've played briefly with a trial of WHS in a VM, and it seems like it will work well, but I'm wondering if anyone has any personal experience with it.
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So you'll pay for WHS instead?
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2011-01-20, 10:36
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-20, 10:58 by maxinc.)
Price for the unRAID licence can be easily recovered and even make profit from the fact you can add new drives so easily and you don't have to buy more than 1 at at given time.
By the time you need to add another disk, the prices probably have dropped and you saves some $$$. Even more, you can get a generous discount if you purchase 2 licenses at the same time (friend or family maybe?).
By using a single parity drive saves money over other configurations which require more extra drives for the task as the array grows. And saving wasted space by being able to combine disks of different sizes into the same array while keeping all data protected.
It will even save money on electricity since it only spins one disc only when watching a movie for example (as opposed to a raid5 which would have to keep all disks in the array spinning for the same task).