I'm moving up in the world with regards my home setup... Having just moved into a house, I've had a great idea of sticking a NAS up in the loft and beaming everything down from there. I'm wanting to run 4x 1TB drives in RAID5, as I've come close to losing stuff one too many times!
I've acquired a HP DC7100 which has 4 Sata ports. As yet, I'm not sure if this will do Hardware RAID5. I'm guessing it wont.
As such, I believe my options are;
Software RAID via Windows. Will Server/7 allow a software RAID5 config? I'm not sure it will... If it does, what happens if the windows drive goes tits up. Will the Array die? A bit of me says Microsoft wouldn't be so stupid to let that happen, then the other bit says "how can the array continue to work without the RAID config in place?"...
This brings me onto the next thing, getting a Hardware RAID setup, if the DC7100 doesn't support it... I'd obviously need a Serial ATA RAID Controller. Problem... They all seem to be RAID0, RAID1, JBOD compatible. Why is this?
Is there a PCI Serial ATA RAID Controller out there that will support RAID5?
The DC7100 is a P4 SKT775, is there a motherboard out there that has SATA RAID5 on board capabilities? Maybe replacing the motherboard is the option??
Thoughts?