1kca
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Thanks all for your input - I think I'm set
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Thanks, I actually didn't have the drives before unfortunately. I "had" to buy everything new. As for writing to the SSD, I think that's a good shout. I'll leave it for the time-being, just because the boot drive I have should have plenty of space as is, but if not, at least I'll know I'm not wasting money by buying a sata SSD for it later on Also, I already have a dedicated gaming machine which is a plus, so this will eventually be a dedicated media server
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@brwainer Really appreciate the input! I didn't realise pre-formatting the drives would cause an issue. Can't see why it would. The weird bit is that I think 5/8 were detected and added to the pool just fine - it was just the last 3. Tried all sorts and indivisually, they were fine but who knows. I bought them from Amazon so I returned them to Amazon without a fuss but it may have been worth giving Seagate a shout - they may have had some ideas. Thinking about it now, after what you and kerradeph said, I'm thinking there was more to it. I think it could have been the HBA card not being configured correctly, but even if not, diskpart may have been able to resurrect them. I tried them in a dock as well as internally connected to a different PC but none of the drives were detected at all within Windows.. Mystery As for the transcode drive, I'll see how it goes with it on the boot drive. Should be more than enough space but if not, I'll just pick one up down the line. I'm still going to look into FreeBSD/FreeNAS, but I'll give Storage Spaces another shot first. Makes more sense to try that while Windows is already all set up and then switch over if it doesn't cut it
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Fair enough. I think that pretty much covers it for points 2 and 3, as well as the HBA config I didn't realise I needed lol. Still a bit torn on the storage management solution. I'm going to look into FreeNAS - it comes up way too much to ignore really but I'm still hoping for Windows / Windows compatible solution I can use.
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Not sure what that is.. I'll likely just avoid Seagate's altogether this time around. Out of curiosity, what made you choose FreeBSD/FreeNAS over another solution?
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It doesn't have to be Windows but I'd very much prefer it to be, just because I'm more familiar with it and the fact that it will act as a living room PC for a couple of months before going in a closet somewhere. That's a plus on the drives - means I can just get anything big enough and call it a day. You wouldn't have a link on how to flash the HBA card would you? Wouldn't be surprised if that's what killed my Seagate IronWolfs Edit: Found a couple of decent guides
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So I'm building a Plex media server; I have all my parts except the storage drives. I have two main questions... Ideally, I'd like to stay within Windows. Is there a software solution similar to RAID6 that will work well for a media server in Windows? I'm aware of Windows Storage Spaces which I've attempted to use in the past but it refused to detect all my drives, even though they had all been formatted in Windows that same day. It doesn't have to be a RAID solution, but something similar. I want a giant pool that offers some kind of redundancy in case 2 drives were to fail. Can I use any drives or should I go for purpose built NAS drives such as WD Reds? I recently bought 8 Seagate IronWolf drives, but they all died when the PC went to sleep while wiping them. I don't necessarily want to spend the extra on NAS drives if I don't have to. Is it worth having a separate SSD as a transcoding directory? Originally I was trying to decide between: WD Reds, HGST Deskstar NAS drives, Toshiba N300s or Seagate IronWolfs, but I'd just as happily buy WD Blues or whatever I can get my hands on if they're cheaper and will work just as well. I should say that the PC will be on almost 24/7. I'll turn it off here and there for updates but really, that should be it. Media Server Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Motherboard: MSI B350m Mortar RAM: Adata XPG 16GB 2400MHz (saw it going for £79.94 and went for it) GPU: Nvidia GT 710 (no iGPU on Ryzen) OS Storage: 256GB Samsung 960 Evo NVME SSD Mass Storage: TBD PSU: EVGA SuperNova 650 G2 Case: Fractal Node 804 Misc: LSI 9211-8I 8-port HBA Card
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That's a good way of deciding. Good luck with the build
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That's a good cooler, and yeah no prob, glad I could help
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No worries and just because the 4690k is clocked slightly higher out of the box. You could easily match the stock performance with the 4670k and just as easily surpass it with a mild overclock but in case you didn't want to bother with overclocking straight away, the other one would give you *very slightly* better performance
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Nah I wouldn't worry about that, it won't make any difference whatsoever. Good choice of CPU btw, but would it be possible to get a 4690k? I think they're roughly the same price. Might even be able to get one with the money saved by going with the Asus, if you choose the Asus that is
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980 and possibly a second one later on if you're planning on using air cooling. No custom coolers on the Titan X. Titan X if that doesn't bother you or if you're going to watercool IMO
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With two, they will run at 8x8x, not 16x8x so nothing to worry about
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It will be enough but you could try these PSU calculators to get a better idea: First one Second one
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I'd say go for the MSI but honestly just because I've had several MSI boards including the Z87 GD65 and Z97 Gaming 3 and currently Z97 Gaming 7 and never had any issue. The MSI seems to have more SATA ports too but you may never need them. I'm sure either will get the job done and if you're more familiar with Asus then go for the Asus. The fact that it's also £15 cheaper is just another point in it's favour
