I want to build an AV storage server that will house my film & TV recordings made using MCE2005 (DVR-MS). These recordings require a lot of space, so I'm looking to build a large raid array with some redundancy (so something like raid3 or raid5) with a minimum of 4x500Gb drives. I've got various bits and pieces in my spare parts bin
Intel P4 2.2GHz (FSB 400MHz) + Intel 850 based motherboard + 512Mb RDRAM
AMD 3200 CPU + VIA based socket939 motherboard
Several SATAII hard-drives
Intel gigabit NIC
Spare copy of Windows 2000
Both these barebones systems don't have any on-board or on-chip SATA RAID3/5 solutions. So I've got several options, either:
Purchase a PCI add-on RAID card or PCI-X one that is backwards compatible with 32 bit PCI.
Recylce the CPU on a more modern motherboard that has either on-board or on-chip SATA RAID3/5 solution.
Any suggestions (apart from the telling me to encode the DVR-MS files to divx/xvid). Performance of the NAS is not the primary concern (although it should be fast enough to stream the video), robustness of the array is.
So far I've seen a Highpoint Tech. card (2220) that should be able to do the job. I was looking to get XFX Revo RAID3 5 port card, but no-one sells it anymore.