[Skullmeat]

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Looking at building a tower based server. I'll be using RAID 5 and I'm wondering if WD Red is really necessary for my purposes.
Its mostly going to be a File storage server, print server, and maybe VMs for game servers.

How could I improve this build, while keeping in the $700 to $800 range?

[Oni]

How could I improve this build, while keeping in the $700 to $800 range?

By not being in the $700 to $800 range. If it's just to store/transfer/stream files, should be more than enough.

[Inori]

Check out some prefab NAS units and FreeNAS. Also I'd use Seagate IronWolf over WD Red. More personal preference than anything, but I've found Seagate to be more reliable.

[Skullmeat]

How could I improve this build, while keeping in the $700 to $800 range?

By not being in the $700 to $800 range. If it's just to store/transfer/stream files, should be more than enough.

Says the man with a Titan XP. But seriously, its because I will prob do VMs with it for games. I gave it a bit more firepower for that reason. RAID 5 is also expensive.

[Oni]

How could I improve this build, while keeping in the $700 to $800 range?

By not being in the $700 to $800 range. If it's just to store/transfer/stream files, should be more than enough.

Says the man with a Titan XP. But seriously, its because I will prob do VMs with it for games. I gave it a bit more firepower for that reason.

In my case, I actually utilize it fully, though. Entirely dependent on the purpose.

[mothered]

The link Is not working at the time of this post.

Spoiler:

If you're performing a lot of read operations (write may be slow), Raid 5 Is a good choice. How much Ram are you looking at running?

[Nohbdy]

If you're performing a lot of read operations (write may be slow), Raid 5 Is a good choice.

With modern drives (URE rate 1 in 10^14), not really. At least in the systems administration circles I frequent, RAID 5 is looked down upon because, just in the basic setup phase, there's something like a 3% chance that one of the bits you write was written wrong with 3x 1 TB disks. Backups are a must, and if you're going to do backups, it'd be worthwhile to simply ditch the RAID and go with JBOD/3 storage filesystems.

[mothered]

With modern drives (URE rate 1 in 10^14), not really.

Certainly so.

My post was generalized In terms of heavy write operations, and It's process of reading old parity and data from disks, calculation of old & new data (to be written), to the point of writing the new parity & data to disks. It's this overhead that may cause an Impact In write operations.

[Skullmeat]

16Gb of ram. I chose RAID 5 for redundancy. Second, I've heard the opposite, RAID 5 is often used in the very application Im using it for.

[phyrrus9]

How could I improve this build, while keeping in the $700 to $800 range?

By not being in the $700 to $800 range. If it's just to store/transfer/stream files, should be more than enough.

Says the man with a Titan XP. But seriously, its because I will prob do VMs with it for games. I gave it a bit more firepower for that reason. RAID 5 is also expensive.

VMs is where it starts to get complicated. I know I've talked ESXi with you before, but its all dependent on what you need for your VM. A lot of people stand by xen (which would work), but ESXi is still the most rounded. Good news is, it does support that hardware. You want to make sure you tune your hardware for the most intensive parts. What OS will these VMs be running?