Recent content by Typo91

yea I would test it more, however I decided after using WHS I would rather just eat the parity drive and have some redundancy. I've read that WHS doesn't play nice with RAID volumes, so thats 1 reason for kicking it out, also I am not sure if the WD green drive's 4k sectors are having side...

Fragmentation isn't he issue at all. A storage location like this just doesn't work that way... as a teaching tool I will post fragmentation analysis for one of each type of drive in the system, both test drives are full. 2 TB full drive report 750 GB full drive report These drives have...

i agree, I just thought maybe someone would have other insights... Windows 2003 is old.. but your right, if it works why not. Maybe someone would say, YES FreeNAS is the way to go, you shouldn't have any problem expanding your raid 5 with the first four drives in raid-5 to include the other 2...

When I first built this machine in 2005, it was for going to IRAQ and running movies for 70+ simultaneous users. with 12 Maxtor 300gb SATA-1 drives in RAID 0. it did this no problem. I had two logical drives in this configuration. the first one (4 drives) had writes and reads at 150 MB /s...

Hello, I am trying to decide what to do with my hardware... Windows Home Server is just WAY to slow... its constantly balancing. Streaming HD videos over a 1Gbit LAN (which only takes like 0.9% bandwidth) will hiccup sometimes and I look over and the HD light is going like mad doing lord only...