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What do you think if the current hard drive prices? Good time to buy more drives? After almost a year, I think the prices finally started to go back to what they were before the Thailand flood.

Ok, thanks. The whole reason for me to get the soundbar is to enable different device to share same audio output and reduce cable clutter at the same time, so running AV receiver and speaker wires throughout the room is not an option.

I was going to buy a new pair of pc speaker, but realize that a soundbar system maybe better because a soundbar has multiple audio inputs which I can also use for different devices. With pc speaker, I can only use it with pc. I am mainly purchasing this for my bedroom. I have many devices that...

I heard that the QNAP are better.

Need a card with "2 x SFF-8088 mini-SAS" external connectors, do you have any recommendations? Too bad I don't see any Areca that has this on that page. Will this card work with 3TB drives? http://www.provantage.com/areca-technology-arc-1880x~7AREC03Q.htm

Newegg has 15% off on raid controller cards http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/July-0-2011/ITSale/index-landing.html?nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL072211&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL072211-_-EMC-072211-Index-_-E0-_-PromoWord

SAS is the interface for connecting the external enclosure to the controller card, but the enclosure itself can support both SAS and SATA drives.

Going to build a new RAID 5/6 array using a Sans Digital 8-bay enclosure. Initially, I will start with 4 drives RAID5, will gradually add new drives and migrate to RAID6 as my need increases. Now, what drive should I choose? 2TB or 3TB? 5400RPM or 7200RPM? Is 3TB reliable enough? For...

I would suggest you to get a SAS model. It is faster. Yes, only use RAID6, not RAID5. See the benchmarks. http://store.sansdigital-shop.com/totr8bay6gsa.html

My WHS lose connection to my external eSATA box intermittently. I know it is caused by the loose connection between the esata connector and the esata ports. Is this the nature of the eSATA? If not, what's the best esata cable to get so the connection is not loose?

Maybe 6Gbps drives are faster? They may not fill the bandwidth, but they are faster than 3Gps version? I am just guessing....

I paid over $533 for my 256GB SSD, but I still think it is worth it. Computer boots faster and everything seems faster.

Will an old RAID card (eg. Areca 1222) work with the new 4kb/sector drives?

Can you mix 32MB/64MB cache, 512byte/4kb sector drives in RAID setup? Are they compatible at all?

hm... ok.... but one drawback with WHS is you need to have an OS to use it. With NAS, you can plug it into any network and it will work.

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That's a good tip. :-) I tested my 2nd drive while I sleep. It is now more fun to test the drives, gives me more confident. One more question, after you tested the drives using the manufacturer's utility, do you still test it for a few more days by moving actual data in/out of it before...

I already have a WHS V1 system and will build another system using WHS2011 or SBS2011 soon. I want a simpler solution to backup my important files like photos and my favorite movie, tv shows. Is having two WHS/SBS server good enough if I duplicate my files on the two servers? Or is a NAS...

Ok, thanks all! Just finished testing one 2TB 5k3000 drive with the Hitachi Drive Fitness utility, took 6 hours, found 0 errors. That's a lot of time, but I think it is worth it. Maybe in the future, I will have a low spec machine dedicate to hard drive testing so it doesn't tied up my pc.

Ok, I got two Hitachi 5300 series drives and went to their website to download the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test program. But the program only runs in DOS mode, definitely a little outdated in the modern world. The worse yet is it will take more than 40 minutes (or even hours) to run the test...

For OS disk, will running multiple VM on same disk impact performance? Should I use different disk for each VM?

I have 12+ samsungs running for 1-2 years, never had a failure.

Great! That's good to know. I will do the same. I may run both WHS V1 and V2 as VM. Using V1 for various size drives and V2 for large drives, so I can get the best of both worlds.

Ok, so only hyperV VM can read the data. I think I am fine with that. This actually makes data more secure since not everyone can see the content of the disk unless they have hyperV.

I am running WHS V1 on this processor: Intel Pentium Wolfdale E6300 2.8GHz. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116091 Just wondering whether it is powerful enough to run WHS 2011. What if I run windows 2008 R2 or windows 7, then run WHS 2011 on a VM? My motherboard...

Hi, For those of you that runs WHS (preferably WHS 2011) on Hyper V, do you use vhd or physical pass-through disk for storage? What is the advantage/disadvantage of each? One drawback of vhd I can think of is you cannot view the content of the disk if you unplug it and connect it to a...

How reliable is drivebender? Is it good enough to use safely on Windows Home Server V2?

hm. This page has some guides on the Leo SS4 server. http://www.tranquilpcshop.co.uk/pages/Manuals-and-Downloads.html

Has anyone looked at this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essential base server from Tranquil PC? It seems that it supports that drive pool feature that was in WHS V1. What I am not sure if who implemented the driver pooling feature and how reliable it will be...

This may be a dumb question, but does ZFS support storage pool like WHS V1? I am seeing a lot of people going with the ZFS here, not sure what is the true benefits...

Whats' the difference between embed and non-embed versions of the Windows storage server 2008 R2? I have the technet subscription and I only see the embed version.

You can get this one. http://www.areca.com.tw/products/esatafirewire800iscsiaoeusb.htm It cost more but it is from Areca, definitely much faster than Mediasonic. I have the 4 bay esata/USB2.0 version. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151046

Is ZFS better than RAID5/6?

It seems that most of the new 2TB drives are using the advance format, not compatible with WHS V1. No place to get the old Samsung F3 anymore. Even if there are, they are more expensive than the newer models. Has anyone tried the Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB? Will it work...

I have the WHS, but I also want a NAS for backup, preferbaly have 4 or more drive bays and can do hardware raid5. Which one do you recommend?

I wonder what will happen if one format and restore the WHS OS, will it lose all DE info? Will installing the add-in again able to recover the data?

Thanks. The server has 6 SATA slots. Regarding #3, There are a lot of reads for web server, but there are also a lot of writes too due to logging activities. I am not sure whether the number of writes will shorten the life of SSD. Anyone know how SSD works when it reaches the end of...

hm.. thanks, will go with RAID!.

I am building a web server with dual xeon CPUs. The server will be running 24x7 and may have very high traffic. The server will be running windows server 2008 R2 with hyperV. The web server will be running on virtual machines in the data drive (RAID1 or RAID5) Currently, I have a 256GB SSD...

Does the old raid cards such as Areca 1222, 1680 work with the new advance format drives?