Hardware Recommendations for adding hard drives

luvmnky2
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Hardware Recommendations for adding hard drives

Postby luvmnky2 » Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:11 pm

So I've maxed out all the hard drive bays my rig will hold (6), so to add more space I suppose I need to add some kind of external NAS box. I have zero experience using these. Does anyone have such a setup, and if so, can you recommend what hardware to use and how to tie it into the Amahi/Greyhole system?

BadW0lf
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Re: Hardware Recommendations for adding hard drives

Postby BadW0lf » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:37 am

if you want something cheap and using grey hole anyway, i would use one of the mediasonic bay's they have 4 bay and 8 bay options with usb 3.0 or esata, no raid or jabob option, and can be had for as little as $100, and each drive inside the bay will show up as a seporate drive, if using esata your esata port needs to support port replicator

luvmnky2
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Re: Hardware Recommendations for adding hard drives

Postby luvmnky2 » Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:12 am

Cool I'll check it out, thanks.

wobbly
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Re: Hardware Recommendations for adding hard drives

Postby wobbly » Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:57 am

if you want something cheap and using grey hole anyway, i would use one of the mediasonic bay's they have 4 bay and 8 bay options with usb 3.0 or esata, no raid or jabob option, and can be had for as little as $100, and each drive inside the bay will show up as a seporate drive, if using esata your esata port needs to support port replicator

what esata card would you recommend ?
i need to do this soon thank you

apastor
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Re: Hardware Recommendations for adding hard drives

Postby apastor » Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:43 am

Does your mobo support esata?
Proxmox Server: Currently Not Running Amahi
CPU: AMD FX 6100 Six Core
RAM: 8GB DDR3
HDD: 4x1TB RAID10 (Adaptec)

wobbly
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Re: Hardware Recommendations for adding hard drives

Postby wobbly » Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:14 pm

Does your mobo support esata?

atm no but i know i can get pci cards for esata but dont know what one to buy

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