New server, "media and games"

[niko084]

E5200
Asus P5Q SE/R
3x 640gb WD SE16 *Raid 5*
1x 80gb WD Blue *OS Drive*
DVD/RW
4x2gb Geil Black Dragon DDR2-800

That's my idea, want to be able to run Coop mode 4-6 player Vegas games so obviously it needs to control the AI and such. It will be standalone. Other lighter games but that's the main one I was worried about. The games will be network not internet!

As for the media, it will serve media files to network media players.

 

[Tau]

E5200
Asus P5Q SE/R
3x 640gb WD SE16 *Raid 5*
1x 80gb WD Blue *OS Drive*
DVD/RW
4x2gb Geil Black Dragon DDR2-800

That's my idea, want to be able to run Coop mode 4-6 player Vegas games so obviously it needs to control the AI and such. It will be standalone. Other lighter games but that's the main one I was worried about. The games will be network not internet!

As for the media, it will serve media files to network media players.

Overkill in the ram department for sure. the rest should be just fine though, only thing you might want to look into is raiding the OS/install drive, as well as teh storage drives, as over a gigabit network you will only see ~50-60MB/s transfer with those HDDs.

***EDIT***

just saw you were raid 5ing those storage drives, what controller will you be using? as if its onboard or a poor controller you wont see any real write speed increases moving to a 3 drive raid 5.

 

[niko084]

I was just looking over this as it is not... The amount of power I put into this across the boards is extremely overkill..... I was worried about streaming 2 1080p movies to the players while listening to music or something, this is not going to be an issue at all..

I want to keep the ram for a nice buffer, as for now it will be the ICH10R onboard, but I'll probably just run the OS on the raid, or possibly even install it to a CF.

The last system I did raid 5 on that board with 3x 160gb 7200.10's it ran something like 120mb/s write speed steady. The Intel onboard raid is pretty nice TBH.. But over time I will probably put a hot raid card in it and move into a larger setup, 5x 640s Raid 5 probably.

Lastly I'm also going to run a DVR camera system on it, but I'll drop another 2 250gb or so drives in raid 0 for that dedicated because it will be 4-6 camera's at 30fps, at that point I also may up it to a quad core to help with the constant encoding of the video streams.

Also considering running dual gigabit out of it depending on how heavy my load ends up on it.