Building a RAID System at Home

By | November 5, 2014

Getting the right system – Hardware specs

What I am looking for ?

 

  1. Support for atleast 2 6.0 Gbps SATA drives
  2. Atleast 4 3.0 GB/s SATA connectors
  3. Support for atleast 8 GB RAM at 1666
  4. USB 3.0 support
  5. HDMI or DVI Connector
  6. 1 GBps or 10 GBps ethernet connection
  7. Support to add addtional 1 GB/s or 10 Gb/s ethernet card
  8. Support for external fans

 

To learn about all the chipsets under LGA1155, head on to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155

And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets will give you details on each chip

 

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