Recent content by DeadON

WHS, without a doubt.

That's an even better solution. If you don't have to buy new, use what you already have for the WHS and spend the money on a system that could really benefit from new tech.

That Foxconn board doesn't meet his requirements of "1 pci-e x16, 2 pci-e x4 slots". The video dilemma with the P5Q Premium can easily be solved with this, I am currently using it and it works great for a server. Can't give you an answer about a "cheap" 12 port RAID card though (they currently...

Asus P5Q Premium. 4x PCI-E x16 slots (2 are electrically x4), 1 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI, 4x GigE LAN, 10x SATA...more

There is really a simple solution, being as this is a RAID 1 array. All you need to do is put the one good 160GB drive back in (assuming you still have it with it's original data intact) use Ghost (or similar) to do a 160GB partition to 320GB partition drive copy. Remove the 160GB drive, move...

Also, for decent hardware based card, read performance will be nearly identical for an 8 disk RAID 6 vs a 7 disk RAID 5 with hot spare (8 disks). Write performance will favor the RAID 5+1 by about 15-30 MBps based on the RAID engine.

I would go with RAID 6 over the RAID 5+1. With the RAID 6, you would still maintain your data if another drive were to fail while rebuilding the array after a single drive failure. With the RAID 5+1, if another drive fails during the rebuild (unless it's the one that was your hot spare) you're...

I'll second the P5Q Premium. It's the foundation of my server (Q6600, 8GB RAM, PCI-E x1 GeForce 8400GS, Areca ARC-1260, Accusys ACS-61010-16, Server 2k8 R2, Hyper-V WHS, Hyper-V SBS 2k8). Super stable motherboard, 4 GigE ports (that support teaming) allows the host and each VM to have their...

That's why I use hardware RAID on the WHS. It provides a small level of redundancy as well as a great measure of convenience if I lose one or two drives. I can still rebuild the array and not go through that much pain, keeping my data intact and minimizing down time. All important stuff (i.e...

@[LYL]Homer - Thanks! @Ockie - Thanks! I bought 4 of these cases ridiculously cheap when BB was closing them out. This build has been quite a while in coming about. I finally got the time recently and was able to bring my WHS down and do the work in one afternoon (except for cable...

Long time lurker, first post. 10.9TB Advertised 7.5TB Usable Custom modded dual RocketFish (Lian Li) 6 x Athena Power 5-in-3 SATA backplanes Corsair HX 620W/Thermaltake TR2 430W Asus P5Q Premium Core 2 Quad Q6600 Thermaltake Sonic Tower Corsair 4 x 1GB DDR2 800MHz ATI Radeon...