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And it would be compatible with my board?

I don't want to use a motherboard Raid. Nor a software raid, want to get some experience with raid controller cards.

RAID 1 , 2 6TB SATA Seagate iron wolf drives.

So, I have an old AMD FX 8370 cpu, on an old GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ socket motherboard running Windows 10. I run my Plex server off of this and my girlfriend also uses this as her own personal computer. It sort of works as a NAS as well, I back up important documents and files to the HDD's I have in it over our local network. I would like to set up a RAID 1 array and would prefer to have it run off of a RAID controller card. Before I pull the trigger on a RAID card I want to make sure it will be compatible with the system, or are most RAID cards compatible with the what ever PCIE slot they are designed for. I do not need a battery back up, I just want a reliable RAID card to store my movies, tv shows, music and other miscellaneous files on it. I know that i could simply do a software RAID in windows and or run a configure a RAID array in the BIOS, I would prefer to have the RAID run off of it's own controller card and not in the OS or motherboard. Does any one know for sure of any good RAID cards that would be compatible with my system? Thanks

I had a feeling it would take a huge dump in performance when a user from the outside does a large data dump. However, My GF will not use it everyday. She is a book worm and will probably spend most of her free time reading a good book. If and when she does get on it she will most likely check her e-mail and shop here and there. I mean, she will only use this for less than an hour once or twice a week. If she is on longer than that it would be to type a paper in Word. It will have an 8 core CPU in it so i have a feeling it would be able to handle several tasks at once. I could be wrong lol. To be honest it is a learning experience for me. I understand there will be a bit of trial and error with this project. If I need to do something different then later on I will. Thank you for all your inputs, greatly appreciated.

I would like to use two m.2 NVM-e SSDs with my 970. So this should work right? without loosing performance?

I will be doing an upgrade soon I will be getting an 8700K , a Gigabyte z370 AORUS Gaming 7 MOBO I will use my old evga 970 (Yes, I know it is not the best card but gets the job done, will get a new card when NVIDIA releases their new card I will get one.) I have a Samsung 860 EVO 250G NVM-E SSD for the OS I also want to get a 1TB MP500 Corsair NVM-E SSD for my Game Library and large programs. Will I have enough PCI-E lanes? I am a bit confused as to if the MOBO supports some lanes and the CPU supports others. Want to know before I pull the Trigger on my purchase.

Forgot to mention that my girl friend will be using this as a desktop as well. Nothing major, web surfing, homework and Email. Thus why I plan on running windows. I would have gone with FreeNas but I still need it to be a useful workstation for my girl friend. Also why I plan on installing FileZilla Server on this same PC

Hello Every one! My family has built up huge amounts of data from, family photos, video, and music over the course of several years. As well as lots of documents that pose little to no security threat. Yes, I know I still need to keep good tight security for my network. I have ~4 TB of data to store. I would love to be able to have my family load up what ever data they want to back up onto this server from their home. I would also like to use this as my main mass storage for personal data at home I can upload over the local network or from another computer off site ( when I get more drives that will be optimal for this configuration). I am an experienced builder but lack in some basic network knowledge and have little experience with configuring a server. I plan on using the computer's CPU, MOBO,RAMM and Bootdrive, along with a spare mass storage HDD's I have now in my current main PC. Then I am going to keep, my PSU, GPU, CPU cooler, fans, case and upgrade to an I7 8700k, new AROSE Gigabyte z370 gaming 7 MOBO and some new ddr4 ramm. The old parts in my current build is going into a new case with a 4tb WD purple drive to test my server on. An AMD FX8370 CPU, a Gigabyte 970A-UD3 AM3+ socket MOBO, 16GB of G.SKILL DDR3 ram. A spare display GPU I have laying around for a monitor, a 125G SSD for the boot drive and a few misc small programs. - Will this hardware be enough for what I intend to do? Now, I am only using one 4TB drive to test out at first. I will get better drives in later on and set up a RAID Array. I plan on getting two large NAS drives (WD red or Seagate Iron Wolf? feedback - on what brand offers the better performance is appreciated) about 6-10TB in size and putting them into a RAID 1 array on the motherboard. - Now, I should be okay with a raid 1 array? I will just mirror the other drive correct? if one of the drives fails there is another one already backed up and then I simply just replace the bad drive correct? - For only having two drives at first and then plan on going to 4 total and my MOBO supports RAID 1, I won't need a RAID card necessarily right? Or will a RAID card help in the performance of the server? After Installing all the necessary hardware, getting windows and all the necessary drivers installed I plan on installing and using FileZilla server on the server it's self. And anyone els wanting to download or upload to the server will have to have the FileZilla client installed on there PC. -Am I right, this software will take care of all of my FTP and mass storage needs over a network? I know I need to port forward in my router and disable windows fire wall to allow Filezilla to talk with the outside world. I have a Netgear Night Hawk x6 ac3200Ti-Band Wifi Router that has a built in Gigabit Ethernet switch. - Will my computer and the server exchange data fairly well without hogging a lot of bandwidth on my network? Any help or insight is appreciated