I work for a company that sells software, software can integrate with windows index to build info such as what file needs what other files, dependencies, versions etc
I would love to get a 10 bay server rack, fill it with say 500gb drives, and test out what Raid1-10 has on indexing performance, which is fastest etc
But I need something with 10 or so bays, I could do the 2.5" (or smaller drives) but I would like to use the server for personal use after
1.Does anyone have any insight on what could improve indexing performance (say it only reads 8kb file headers, raid mirroring degrades performance, dont stripe data, fast single core performance etc)
2.And secondly any idea where I can get a barebones rack case (or populated second hand) for a large number of drives
Only reason I want barebones is that it will be next to me whilst I test the fastest way to index through 2TB of data, around 1-4million files, testing it many times and really dont want it to blow my eardrums
Edit: Perfectly happy to go second hand and cut out fans if people have experience with them, say telling me get a poweredge 2000 etc