Building a home server - Advice

geekxcore

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Hi,

After some advice on a home server build, provisional components below. Looking for it to be quiet and run either FreeNAS or Windows Home Server in a raid configuration.

Corsair Carbide 500R
Asus P8H77-V LE Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
IcyBox IB-553SSK 3-Bay SATA/SAS Hard Drive Backplane
Noctua NH-C14 Top-Flow Low-Profile CPU Cooler
Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB)
Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular
6 x 1TB WD reds

Can anyone see any problems with the above?

The other question I had about raid was if I skipped on the backplanes how would I know if a drive had gone down? (never done raid before so dont shoot me if its a dumb question)

Thanks!
 
What RAID level do you plan on using and are you just planning on using the onboard controller?

Also, I'd avoid WD Reds at all costs. I just bought 5 for a new NAS I'm setting up. 3 of the drives arrived DOA. I'm waiting for the replacements to arrive. Luckily they will only be storing temporary surveillance footage so data loss isn't a concern. I will have absolutely 0 trust for these drives.
 
Is this hardware you want to buy or have got?

As for knowing how a drive goes down its pretty simple once you actually have the kit and set it up. Thing is youll need a raid card to do it right and that will almost double your budget.

On board raid is gash, pointless when building a whole rig to use onboard or software.

Youve also not mentioned what raid you want to use so Im assuming you know nothing?
 
the only hardware I have at the moment are the HDD's so everything else is open to change.

The idea is that it'll be used to stream films/music/photos to XMBC and play backup on work stuff. From what I've read RAID 1+0 seems like the best option and the motherboard does support that? basically I don't want to have wasted hours ripping films/music for a drive to fail and lose all my content.

What raid card would you recommend?
 
If I were building a low cost home server today, I would just use Windows 8 storage spaces and mirror everything that was of any importance. imo raid is unnecessary for a home setup. If you then want to back up your pc's, run a copy windows home server in vmware.
 
Raid 5 or 6 would be best tbh.

As Ive said motherboard raid = pants for this application.

Oh and the drives you bought ARE a bit shit and very noisey.
 
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