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    HP SAS Expander Owner's Thread

    Is there anyone in the Atlanta area that can help with updating firmware? Thanks!
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    Was the HDD Crisis Fake?

    Who says they have to keep making older drives? They don't always necessarily replace warranty drives with the exact same model. If longer warranties were keeping them from coming out with newer models, why only reduce the warranties on consumer models? The warranty reduction was about...
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    HP SAS Expander Owner's Thread

    Yes. In general. anal·o·gous : 1. Having similar function but a different structure and origin 2. Similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy. A SAS expander is comparable to a SATA port multiplier in that it is used to provide more connections from the one (or...
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    HP SAS Expander Owner's Thread

    You don't need a second case for the expander, but obviously you might if your primary case doesn't have space for all your drives. A SAS expander as analogous to a SATA port multiplier. It takes a single SAS port and expands it to more ports. So it needs a compatible SAS port to plug it...
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    HP SAS Expander Owner's Thread

    Thanks, I searched this thread, but hadn't seen that post in that thread. I assumed it would work, but didn't want to gamble without asking first. So I ended up getting an IBM m1015 and flashed it to an LSI 9211-8i. :)
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    Flexraid now costs $... any alternative?

    Drivepool is really just a replacement for the Drive Extender that MS took out of WHS. As such, it just does pooling, and duplication-based file protection (inefficient) on WHS 2011. FlexRAID does parity protection (much more efficient, particularly for a large number of drives), variable...
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    Flexraid now costs $... any alternative?

    I couldn't agree more. Admittedly, I haven't tried it, but I'm mystified by all the hoopla over Storage Spaces. If I wanted striping in my home server, I would simply use one of the tried and true hardware RAID solutions that have been used in enterprises for years. In fact, to drive the...
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    Flexraid now costs $... any alternative?

    Let us know how that works out. ;)
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    Flexraid now costs $... any alternative?

    Honestly, I see both sides of the argument. Historically, FlexRAID support has been what you would expect from something being done by a single guy in his spare time. One of Brahim's major stated reasons for going commercial is because that is what is needed to take it to the next level: for...
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    Flexraid now costs $... any alternative?

    1.3 was a "final" version that didn't expire. You won't get any support on it, but you wouldn't have paid for it either. No one HAD to upgrade from it, but of course, people did, because they wanted the newer/better version.
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    Flexraid now costs $... any alternative?

    disparity was created by someone who was originally a FlexRAID user. IIRC, he wasn't happy with the lack of updates, or an extended absense of the FlexRAID author, or something like that, so he went off and made an alternative. That is true. I have over 30TB of data, and it takes over 24hrs...
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    HP SAS Expander Owner's Thread

    Does anyone know if this expander is compatible with the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8?
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    WHS questions

    Yes, it's free. I don't know if it will always be free, he could decide to start charging for it at some point. But regardless of what happens with it, nothing will happen to your data. FlexRAID does not change your data when it's installed, and is not involved in your normal read/write...
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    WHS questions

    That's where FlexRAID comes in. And you don't even have to exclude the movies. :) You can't be as selective with WHS's duplication: you turn it on or off at the share level (e.g. duplicate the "documents" share, don't duplicate the "movies" share, etc.). You can't pick and choose based on...
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    WHS questions

    Ah, ok, yes, I've heard of people moving the MS search index to the D partition to save space on the C partition. But that's just a search index. It's not a temp folder that pool data passes through. The search index is a completely separate process from writing/reading data to the pool.
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