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<blockquote data-quote="whaase" data-source="post: 500750" data-attributes="member: 65471">I went through all this a couple weeks back trying to decide how I wanted to set up my server.First thing you need to do is figure out how much you can afford to spend. Sounds easy enough, but if your like me, I think big and get dissapointed when I can't afford it lol there was no way I could justify dropping $1500 on a GOOD raid card with lots of expantion.I went for a software raid 5 w/4*1TB drives. I also went with Ubuntu Server (linux) using mdadmin and Webmin to do all my setup. I actually do own Server 2003, but I couldn't find a lot of info on recovery from a OS crash, or just general info on it. I also didn't know what kind of read/write speeds I'd get. I tried freeNAS, I liked the concept, but I had issues with the software itself.With linux, and a software raid 5 I'm getting approx 50MB/sec up and down consistantly on a true gigabit network (cat6). The limiting factor is Vista. Its horrible for network transfers while media is playing. I managed to find a couple of registry hacks that took it from 10MB/sec max to 50 while media is going.That's my rambling for the day lol</blockquote>

[QUOTE="whaase, post: 500750, member: 65471"] I went through all this a couple weeks back trying to decide how I wanted to set up my server. First thing you need to do is figure out how much you can afford to spend. Sounds easy enough, but if your like me, I think big and get dissapointed when I can't afford it lol there was no way I could justify dropping $1500 on a GOOD raid card with lots of expantion. I went for a software raid 5 w/4*1TB drives. I also went with Ubuntu Server (linux) using mdadmin and Webmin to do all my setup. I actually do own Server 2003, but I couldn't find a lot of info on recovery from a OS crash, or just general info on it. I also didn't know what kind of read/write speeds I'd get. I tried freeNAS, I liked the concept, but I had issues with the software itself. With linux, and a software raid 5 I'm getting approx 50MB/sec up and down consistantly on a true gigabit network (cat6). The limiting factor is Vista. Its horrible for network transfers while media is playing. I managed to find a couple of registry hacks that took it from 10MB/sec max to 50 while media is going. That's my rambling for the day lol [/QUOTE]

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