quakefiend420
Limp Gawd
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- Sep 22, 2004
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I currently have a WHS box with the following drives:
1 400GB
1 500GB (OS)
10 1TB
8 are running on the motherboards SATA ports, and 4 are running on a RocketRaid 2310 PCI Express controller card.
I am backing up my PC backups to my domain controller(separate machine), and the rest of the files are backed up to 3 1.5TB drives in external USB enclosures. I've just had another failure with WHS, this time a drive died and the console refused to allow me to remove it to begin the duplication process of what was on that disk, when I finally managed to get it to remove it refuses to duplicate and I'm left manually restoring from backups.
I'm fed up with WHS and would like to migrate my data to a more stable solution, I've investigated ZFS, but it seems a bit more complicated than I'd like to deal with, plus I don't know that I want to trust my data to a rather obscure operating system that I have absolutely no familiarity with. FreeNAS seems easy to use, but isn't as robust as some other solutions.
What seems like the best route for me to go? I can store my data on the 3 1.5TB drives and use the rest of the hardware to create a new server/array.
1 400GB
1 500GB (OS)
10 1TB
8 are running on the motherboards SATA ports, and 4 are running on a RocketRaid 2310 PCI Express controller card.
I am backing up my PC backups to my domain controller(separate machine), and the rest of the files are backed up to 3 1.5TB drives in external USB enclosures. I've just had another failure with WHS, this time a drive died and the console refused to allow me to remove it to begin the duplication process of what was on that disk, when I finally managed to get it to remove it refuses to duplicate and I'm left manually restoring from backups.
I'm fed up with WHS and would like to migrate my data to a more stable solution, I've investigated ZFS, but it seems a bit more complicated than I'd like to deal with, plus I don't know that I want to trust my data to a rather obscure operating system that I have absolutely no familiarity with. FreeNAS seems easy to use, but isn't as robust as some other solutions.
What seems like the best route for me to go? I can store my data on the 3 1.5TB drives and use the rest of the hardware to create a new server/array.