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<blockquote data-quote="keith2045" data-source="post: 354570" data-attributes="member: 18505">I have never personally had a drive fail (i've seen lots fail at work though). But when you add more drives it adds more heat which can use them to fail. I would suggest setting up a raid 5 just in case, unless you can accept loosing some data and restoring it via DVDs, which i was not. I currently have a hardware and software raid setup (4 1TB drives using software raid, and 3 750GB drives using hardware raid) and have not seen any performance issues. I also have a gigabit card but cat 5 cable and also havent really seen much performance. The only thing i have noticed is when i fast forward or rewind the picture doesnt update that much (i'm not sure if that is network related or not). I would also suggest using a linux distro to manage your server instead of windows. It is free and i think has better performance. If you dont feel comfortable using linux then windows is probably best. I use Openfiler for my file server, it has a web based interface which makes it very easy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="keith2045, post: 354570, member: 18505"] I have never personally had a drive fail (i've seen lots fail at work though). But when you add more drives it adds more heat which can use them to fail. I would suggest setting up a raid 5 just in case, unless you can accept loosing some data and restoring it via DVDs, which i was not. I currently have a hardware and software raid setup (4 1TB drives using software raid, and 3 750GB drives using hardware raid) and have not seen any performance issues. I also have a gigabit card but cat 5 cable and also havent really seen much performance. The only thing i have noticed is when i fast forward or rewind the picture doesnt update that much (i'm not sure if that is network related or not). I would also suggest using a linux distro to manage your server instead of windows. It is free and i think has better performance. If you dont feel comfortable using linux then windows is probably best. I use Openfiler for my file server, it has a web based interface which makes it very easy. [/QUOTE]

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