stephb
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- Feb 24, 2014
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Hi,
This will be my first build and I've read all kinds of recommendation threads on the forums so I think I'm pretty good with the hardware selections I've made, but any feedback will be much appreciated. This will be used to store music, pictures, video, documents, etc. Video and audio streaming to my HTPC will happen, but no transcoding is required.
I tried to make this for as little $$$ as possible without sacrificing the must-haves. I'm planning on a Raidz2 build. Please review and let me know if I'm going to be good with this. Recommendations are always appreciated too.
Highlights:
One thing I'm curious about... With this MB It has 8 SATA6 ports, but 6 are controlled by one controller and 2 are controlled by another. If in the future I wanted to add another RZ2 of 4 drives would the fact that 2 would be on one controller and 2 would be on another matter?
This will be my first build and I've read all kinds of recommendation threads on the forums so I think I'm pretty good with the hardware selections I've made, but any feedback will be much appreciated. This will be used to store music, pictures, video, documents, etc. Video and audio streaming to my HTPC will happen, but no transcoding is required.
I tried to make this for as little $$$ as possible without sacrificing the must-haves. I'm planning on a Raidz2 build. Please review and let me know if I'm going to be good with this. Recommendations are always appreciated too.
Highlights:
- AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
- Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
- Kingston ValueRAM 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1333MHz ECC CL9 DIMMs w/TS (KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G)
- 4 x WD Red 3TB 3.5" SATA3 64MB Buffer NAS OEM Hard Drive
One thing I'm curious about... With this MB It has 8 SATA6 ports, but 6 are controlled by one controller and 2 are controlled by another. If in the future I wanted to add another RZ2 of 4 drives would the fact that 2 would be on one controller and 2 would be on another matter?