What storage should I get?

[Tony Quinsee-Jover]

Hi all,

Whatever happens with my poorly VideoRaid in the short term I need to
replace it, and quickly.

I know very little about the internals of PCs, hence this email.

So... bearing in mind that SAS storage is now out of the ark, I'm
guessing either thunderbolt or USB C is the way to go?

Slots in my XW8600:

PCI slot 1 (32bit/33MHz) - free
PCI Express slot 2 (x16 Gen2) - NVIDIA graphics card
PCI Express slot 3 (x16 Gen2) - free
PCI Express slot 4 (x8/x4) - Kona
PCI Express slot 5 (x8/x4) - Kona
PCI Express slot 6 (x8/x1) - free
PCI-X slot 7 (64-bit/133MHz) - free

So I have a choice of slots 1, 3, 6, and 7 - would any of those be
okay?  Slot 7 looks good to me, but are cards available to suit?  I
don't really understand what the stuff in parenthesis means.

Does the OS (Win 7) matter to any of this?

Once I've got my i/o card installed, what's the best bang-for-the-buck
storage I should get? I'd want something greater than 7 TB.  Bear in
mind that I don't work with 4k on this machine, it's strictly HD only.

Thanks for the advice all, I'll be purchasing whatever I need in the
next day or two as I'm currently out of action with a dozen jobs sat
waiting.

Cheers in advance,
Tony


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[Craig Gordon]

If you are in the HD world try An esta card and array. They are inexpensive and should be compatible the older hardware.
Good luck

Craig
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> Hi all,

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[Tony Quinsee-Jover]

Thanks Craig,

I’ll look ‘em up.

T :)

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> On 10 Oct 2021, at 14:30, Craig Gordon <cigo...@optonline.net> wrote:
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> If you are in the HD world try An esta card and array. They are inexpensive and should be compatible the older hardware.

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