![]() The intel X540-T1 or X540-T2 should suit your needs, just be sure to use Cat6A cables You'll be fine with an onboard nic as long as it's intel, but if you're dealing with raw video/photos and doing editing or rendering on your main computer (or anything that really needs more than 125MB/s of sequential i/o) then you may want to invest in a few 10Gb nics. You'd be better served by an Asus, tyan, or supermicro board (looney stole what I was going to recommend so I'm just re-iterating it :P )Īnd finally, you asked about network interface cards. If you want to build a computer with an SR-2 in it then go ahead, but it's not meant for server use. They're a bit more expensive but they're much better built, have better backplanes, and a lot of them ship with redundant power supplies.Īgain with what looney said, the SR-2 is not a server board. Grab something like an LSI 9211-8i and an HP sas expander.Īs far as a redundant power supply, no you don't need one but if you're running any kind of important servers then you may want one, however it looks like that Norco case only supports a regular ATX power supply. If you do plan on using 24 drives then you're going to need an HBA (host bus adapter) to connect all your drives to, seeing as the SR-2 only has a few onboard sata ports and no sff-8087 connectors. Like looney said, you're going to need some kind of software solution (flexraid, storage spaces, etc.) ![]() (also don't use raid 10, it's a waste :ph34r: ) If you're going to be using random mixed drives then a hardware raid 10 solution is pretty much out of the question unless all the drives are the same capacity (and hopefully spindle speed, but that's not quite as important). ![]()
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