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<blockquote data-quote="AIstudio" data-source="post: 383216" data-attributes="member: 63135">Hi eetaylog,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Great looking build there. I remember answering a few of your threads regarding RAID etc. Take a look at this <a href="http://www.openegg.org/FlexRAID.curi" target="_blank">FlexRaid</a>I am now using Flexraid and removed the rocket raid altogether as I couldn't get the media center to sleep and back without problems. Flexraid is more like a snapshot raid, ideal for media servers as the data is normally static ie doesn't change much. If you do change things, add new movies or songs etc, you just re-sync the array and your protected. The best thing is that you can use whatever drives, as many drives as you like etc. All you need is a drive to put the parity data on. You can use any drive for that, the parity data is as big as your largest protected volume. So if you had 4 x 1 Tb drives and the largest was 800Gb your Parity data will be 800Gb. Take a look <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; &nbsp; ( and its FREE)RegardsKev</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AIstudio, post: 383216, member: 63135"] Hi eetaylog, Great looking build there. I remember answering a few of your threads regarding RAID etc. Take a look at this [URL="http://www.openegg.org/FlexRAID.curi"]FlexRaid[/URL] I am now using Flexraid and removed the rocket raid altogether as I couldn't get the media center to sleep and back without problems. Flexraid is more like a snapshot raid, ideal for media servers as the data is normally static ie doesn't change much. If you do change things, add new movies or songs etc, you just re-sync the array and your protected. The best thing is that you can use whatever drives, as many drives as you like etc. All you need is a drive to put the parity data on. You can use any drive for that, the parity data is as big as your largest protected volume. So if you had 4 x 1 Tb drives and the largest was 800Gb your Parity data will be 800Gb. Take a look :) ( and its FREE) Regards Kev [/QUOTE]

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