Recent content by Lost-Benji

Nice and clean setup. The only thing that would bother me is the Lack-Racks. While they are neat, weight capacity is not their best point. With the weight of the servers above the bottom one, a bump would likely see it topple. In the past, I have seen right-angle steel or aluminium placed...

Format the sucker. There is likely hidden junk/recycle bin folders on the turd. Death to rotten apples while at it.

WTF? The screenies are just fine.

So you cloned your OS to a cheap and issue prone drive and now want more bang for buck? Clean Load FTW! Put two Hyper's in RAID-0 and then use the Evo for a cache over the HDD's. If still not clear, Intel SRT works by using a single SSD upto 60GB (rest of space is either wasted or can be...

The Dell cards are good but best left to HDD's. Use SSD's with AHCI SATA ports and enjoy them. If you somehow feel the need for HW RAID, time to dig deep and move to a much new card.

Cheap drive, cheap outcomes. Edit: I see you have plenty of third-party crap running, good chance issues are also self-induced...

I would suggest you take your own advice, you don't know me nor have you read and understood the OP. Read the OP again and you would see the signs why he has issues and that he did a install, not clone. Noted the signs for you.

If you haven't used server 2012R2 before, you won't realise what it can do. That being said, this product is aiming way to high above the bar. The CPU is very tiny and the 2Gb RAM is abysmal. If you want to use SS for anything more than a spanned or mirrored volume, you will want a crap load...

I would love a dollar for every time I see threads were people buy cheap Evo's and expect performance. Buy a Pro and stop being tight.

Is the drive on a direct AHCI connection? Normal to still see it, just leave it out of the scheduled pool. It doesn't and fits in category of just leave it alone. Either another drive was present when loading and/or it was not the first boot device. No, you just need to find where it went...

Yes.

Have a look at STH who have been benching a lot of SAS SSD's of late. http://www.servethehome.com/

Sounds like you're the bandit in question or he who would do the same and then cry foul. The drive was sold and purchased as a single item. Regardless of it being made of four main components (PSU, USB-SATA interface board, Case/packaging and of course, the cheapest drives on the planet), the...

One day, people will stop buying Evo's when they realise the saying, You get what you pay for rings very true. As for SS, no, not in this case. On-board RAID smashes SS, hands down.

May I suggest Server 2012R2 or Windows 8 Pro as the Hyper-V host, then use your OI + NappIT on this? Hyper-V is well known to support drive and hardware pass-through than VMware bases.