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    WHS or Linux

    WHS, without a doubt.
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    recommend a mobo with 2-3 pci-e (whs setup)

    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.
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    recommend a mobo with 2-3 pci-e (whs setup)

    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...
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    recommend a mobo with 2-3 pci-e (whs setup)

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

    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...
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    RAID 5+hot spare or RAID 6 for my new 8x2TB array?

    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.
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    RAID 5+hot spare or RAID 6 for my new 8x2TB array?

    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...
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    New Motherboard for my file server

    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...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    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...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    @[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...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    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...
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