Cube PC with RAID?
Discussion
docevi1 said:
RAID 1 is mirroring across 2 drives and it causes a PITA if something with your core system goes wrong.
Whys that then?
I can only see it causing an issue if shit gets written to both places.
If you must RAID, RAID5
Mind you, 3 disks in a little box, probably not going to fit...
docevi1 said:
Sorry, not explained very well. I used to have a RAID 1 system and the mainboard died, I had to buy exactly the same board to get the hdd's readable again. If I had used plain standalone drives I could have put the discs anywhere to rescue the data.
Which is why using the onboard controller is a bad idea. You have a point, but disk failures are far more common than Mobo or controller failures.
ThatPhilBrettGuy said:
I've got a Shuttle SN41G2. Extra holes, cut back out, new 120mm fan, external PSU. With only 1 HD and a DVD in it, it was still a bit of a toaster. Can't see you physically getting 3 drives in it. I guess there's some slightly bigger versions now...
Hmm... got an SK43G with a Sempron 3000 in for a couple of my customers... DVD burner, floppy/card reader and a SATA drive and had no problems.
Seen a few with 2 SATA drives and an external drive...
Remember the case acts as a giant heatsink too...
Thanks for all the replies chaps!
To be honest I'm not too concerned with a mobo failure... in my experience it is a pretty rare thing but maybe I've just been lucky... in managing 900 PCs over the past 5 years I think I've only seen 4 or 5 go pop.
Will have a look into the options...
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To be honest I'm not too concerned with a mobo failure... in my experience it is a pretty rare thing but maybe I've just been lucky... in managing 900 PCs over the past 5 years I think I've only seen 4 or 5 go pop.
Will have a look into the options...
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I sell a lot of these cubes as media centres. They are made by Biostar, a company which specialises in corporate mobo's. They are a work of art as they are all alluminium construction. They have space for one DVD drive and two hard disks. They also have AGP and a PCI slot, and have 6/8 channel audio and Gigabit network, but best of all they are competitively priced. They also have a buit in Infra Red port, two firewire and four USB 2, including front audio.
They are cheap and reliable and come in every different chipset available. My oldest cube is a 3.2GHz AMD64, and it has 2Gig of RAM and two 300 gig hard disks in RAID 0. The fans are logic controlled and when your not playing games its totally silent. In the last two years I have sold over 200 of these and only had one failure.
The new ones having a bigger psu. I have sold a few shuttles and although they were the original small cube, My customers love them too and prefer these because they look better, and were quieter.
They are cheap and reliable and come in every different chipset available. My oldest cube is a 3.2GHz AMD64, and it has 2Gig of RAM and two 300 gig hard disks in RAID 0. The fans are logic controlled and when your not playing games its totally silent. In the last two years I have sold over 200 of these and only had one failure.
The new ones having a bigger psu. I have sold a few shuttles and although they were the original small cube, My customers love them too and prefer these because they look better, and were quieter.
It really depends on what chip-set you start with then what you put it in it.
Units are supplied as 'Bare bones' and then you add a CPU, hard disk, RAM, and DVD drive etc. Details are here.
The reason I like these is there are different models for different uses. For example the AMD 64's always provide a good games platform (although they are limited by the PSU for top graphics cards like the 7800GTX's). Having said that my all black games cube (named Darthvader lol) is running a 9800 All-In-Wonder, and it plays BF2 and CS-Source @ 1024x768 with no probs.
The Intel models are ideal for browsing or as an mp3 server with lower specified CPU's are they are silent and the very neat footprint appeals especially to the ladies, who typically want them for the bedroom or kitchen
Anyone can put one together, it comes with two manuals, a user and an installer so its just a case of connecting the various bits and then installing the software. If you require any further info just drop me a line via my profile. Please note that these are very high quality units and as such if you spec a cube with top or the range everything, you will be looking at a similar price for a high-end conventional desktop. This is because these cubes are the fashionable equivalent of the large form factor they replace, and 'small' is the new black in PC's.
Please note this is not a plug, I am merely recommedning them because they are a quality device, and hence the reason I have provided a link to the wholesaler and not myself.
Units are supplied as 'Bare bones' and then you add a CPU, hard disk, RAM, and DVD drive etc. Details are here.
The reason I like these is there are different models for different uses. For example the AMD 64's always provide a good games platform (although they are limited by the PSU for top graphics cards like the 7800GTX's). Having said that my all black games cube (named Darthvader lol) is running a 9800 All-In-Wonder, and it plays BF2 and CS-Source @ 1024x768 with no probs.
The Intel models are ideal for browsing or as an mp3 server with lower specified CPU's are they are silent and the very neat footprint appeals especially to the ladies, who typically want them for the bedroom or kitchen
Anyone can put one together, it comes with two manuals, a user and an installer so its just a case of connecting the various bits and then installing the software. If you require any further info just drop me a line via my profile. Please note that these are very high quality units and as such if you spec a cube with top or the range everything, you will be looking at a similar price for a high-end conventional desktop. This is because these cubes are the fashionable equivalent of the large form factor they replace, and 'small' is the new black in PC's.
Please note this is not a plug, I am merely recommedning them because they are a quality device, and hence the reason I have provided a link to the wholesaler and not myself.
Si,
Hope your well.
I'm guessing you can set these up just to output direct to a TV?
Can I email you offline for an indication of price for a system i'm thinking about putting together.
I don't play games so looking at an MP3/DVD Server to sit under the TV with a wireless card for net access.
Apart from that i don't need it to do anything else (no word/excel etc).
Thanks,
Phill
Hope your well.
I'm guessing you can set these up just to output direct to a TV?
Can I email you offline for an indication of price for a system i'm thinking about putting together.
I don't play games so looking at an MP3/DVD Server to sit under the TV with a wireless card for net access.
Apart from that i don't need it to do anything else (no word/excel etc).
Thanks,
Phill
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