back2thefuture 0 · ID: 1 Posted April 25, 2015 Hi all, This is a great forum! Im thinking of buying a HP Microserver Gen 8 and installing XPEnology on it. But i have some questions: 1. What are the maximum number of physical hard drives i can install 2. If to start off with i use four 3tb drives and one 300Gb (2.5 inch boot drive) and use SHR how much usuable storage will i have? 3. Is the server quick enough to stream 1080p (max 2 clients at any one time) Many thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rusty 0 · ID: 2 Posted April 25, 2015 1. There are four 3.5" bays and one spot for an optical or 2.5" drive 2. You use USB as a boot drive 3. Depends, direct play your only limited by the throughput of your network, transcoding it will do 1 x 1080p stream, two would be pushing it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
back2thefuture 0 · ID: 3 Posted April 26, 2015 Thatnks for the reply. What about schoondoggy's hard drive kit? Does it work? Is it worth installing this kit? So any ideas then about the usable free space if i have 2tb 2.5 drive and four 3tb drives using synology hybrid raid? Lastly is it worth buying WD Red's NAS HDD's or will normals HD's suffice? Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rusty 0 · ID: 4 Posted April 26, 2015 1. Never tried one, but pictures say yes. As for worth it, that depends on how many drives you want. 2. Dunno, I prefer RAID-5 3. Red's are most definitely a better option, but desktop drives will do the job, that's what I have in mine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
