or just the fact the the WHS Drive Extender is slow. not sure if that was all the IDE drives i used to have in it. currently i find WHS slow as hell doing transfers around the network and even locally. and I'm not sure if there is any point to having each drive seperate with a card like the 2340.ġ BIG RAID 5 Array in the WHS pool (if it'll work)Ĩ Seperate Drives on the HighPoint 2340 in the WHS pool it will start with 4 drives and then I will add the other 4 after as 4 of them currently are FULL of data.Īdding the raid 5 to WHS's pool. Putting all of my 8 1tb SATA's on the 2340 in a RAID5 array. System backups (WHS has built in daily backups of all my systems) Storing and streaming Music, Movies, ISO's, etcĭownloading Torrents (initially stored on the primary drive and then moved to a share so it is moved onto another drive in the pool) its all just one big place to dump my shit i like not having to worry about multiple drive letters/partition sizes. One of the reasons I love WHS is due to the storage pool idea. so the potential has been there for me to loose all my data anyway. so far I have been using NO duplication at all. so you can duplicate a share in case a drive fails. when you copy a file to the WHS shares it goes to the primary drive (if space is available) and is then moved to another one of the drives in the pool to make sure free space is available on the primary drive. the shares setup just show the free space on the primary drive (in my case. the storage pool is only really seen from the WHS console. the way the partitioning and storage works is this.ħ50gb is split 20gb for OS and the rest for StorageĮach other drive is then added to the storage pool. hopefully this will answer all questions.Ĥ x 1tb SATAII's for Storage hanging off a Sil 3114 ![]() The 3124 pci card ? pci-e card or pci-x card? 200 us = 293 $ aus + 40 on ebay for sil 3132 or jmb 363 etc.ġ) do you want raid? or non raid (pass through mode)Ģ) do you want the hdd to sleep when no used.ģ) do you want to be able to access the data from a diff machine? portable? or if raid dies (card)Ĥ) how much storage and how many drive letters (partitions) and size of partition?ĥ) do you know of the problems with larger partitions (volumns) of greater than 2tb (48bit lba) when using 64bit lba and data recovery + new raid cards needed (must support 64 bit lba)Ħ) whats you budget + do you allreadys have what gear(ie hardware + motherboard etc) setup + o/sħ) whats the main purpose for you hdd storage? what are you going to use it for (hold movies)+ acc company database, video editing etc.? if your motherboard has a 2nd controller jmb 363 or sil 3132 you can use them- no cost? Click to expand.get pm from usa (still cheaper than here) 2xpm + freight 300$ aus + ebay card $40
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