Recent content by Axeteg

I want to say no, you will not be able to just move the drives to a new controller, and in this case you will change from software raid, to hardware raid, it will not be possible.

In this case it is a Dell T3500 that will be used. And ESXi and the datastores are installed on a hardrive that is directly connected to the motherboard, so that will not be installed on a disk connected to the controller. I just want one Windows Server 2008 host to have the Areca card for storage

Hi all I have a litte question. I plan to to a ESXi solution for my home servers. But I have some concerns. Can I passthrough my Areca 1260 card to a specific Vmware host to get that one to have my 16TB+ Raid 6 array as I should have it if I ran it in a physical machine? //Axeteg

I use Crashplan to 2 servers at different locations and a copy of all data, which I try to refresh every 6 months. in a safe at my parents home, and one copy at my grandfather, in his safe

I wouldn't live with a 8 disk raid 5 at all without an backup...

I think the best you can do is to contact Highpoint and ask them if it will work with a new controller. I guess it will, but send an email to highpoint to get it confirmed.

I'm using a Drobo, the 4 bay version to save backups from friends and family with Crashplan, just to have the opportunity to add more space without exchange all the drives. The only thing I can say is that it is slow, I get around 10-25MB/s. But besides that, have to say it is a good product...

You might think about the Seeded backup solution that crashplan offer. http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/feature/seed_service

I forgot my password, is it possible to recover data on a hard drive with Bulk Data Encryption? A: There are two HDD passwords (user & master) and two HDD security levels (high and maximum). If the user password is lost and the security level is "high", the master password can be used to unlock...