[Project] NAS Appliance

[Lloyd_mcse]

Just added some more storage to the file server. As it was going to run the OS (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard) I wasn't going to use a Western Digital Green drive, they are fine for storage but not designed to be an OS drive.
That left me three options, a blue, black or an RE model. To my mind the RE and black are overkill for what I need, so I went for a WD Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/s 7200rpm 32MB. Very good drives, and for about £40 they're good value too.
I have partitioned it so the OS has 100GB and the rest is a data storage partition.
Opening word docs over the network is much faster now (compared to the old SATA2 drive). I'm still only using the southbridge SATA2 ports but it's fine for now

File Server - Latest Spec
Intel Pentium E6500 Dual Core 2.9GHz (SpeedStep is on 1.6GHz)
Asus P5QPL-AM G41
Intel X4500 Graphics - On-board
4GB DDR2-6400 RAM
Coolermaster Elite 330
Corsair CX430 430watt PSU
Zalman CNPS9700 NVIDIA Edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1

Storage (So Far)
1x Western Digital Blue 1TB (100GB OS, 900GB Data)
1x Western Digital Green 1TB
2x Western Digital Green 2TB