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Thanks for the tip, it is a about 20% more expensive here, but that is within stirking distance so I will check it out. I am not sure what the comprehensive remote control gives me, aren't Intel vPRO supposed to give me remote control in any case? Or have I misunderstood? The P9D-E/4L has...

I am looking at the Asus P9D WS for mye fileserver, for the following reasons: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P9D_WS/ Pretty cheap for a C226 board. C226, so it has inbuilt VGA Dual intel LAN However i also have some concerns: Are Vpro/KVM guranteed to be supported due to CPU and...

I am looking for å motherboard, preferably c226 (having onboard video is useful), I will be using it for a viritualization setup in my home, so me needs are not so high, but I would also like the board to have at least 8 or 10 s-ata-slots if possible, and also be somewhat reasonbly priced for a...

I have a stuttering problem with my Gen2 Intel 80 Gbs, I don't notice anything similar with my newer samsung 840 EVO.

I see my post can be misunderstood, I ment that 7200 rpm was the norm even a decade ago for 3,5 inch HDDs, a decade ago is when sata was introduced too. If anything, lower spin speeds is more normal now than it was 10 years ago.

I recently got an "1 bit ECC RAM error" from my areca-card which is labeled as "urgent", but is this really a problem? Isnt this only a single bit-fault that has been corrected? It is the first time it has happend after running many years.

Do new drives spin much faster? 7200 Rpm was the norm even a decade ago for 3,5, I would say new drives in average spin slower, since its much more normal with sub 7200 rpm rate now than it was.

That was the one in the forefront of my mind when i wrote the reply, the article has some valid points, but is full of oddities and what i can only think is misunderstandings. That article is much poorer work than the backblaze-article it is criticizing.

Really? The critique of the test I have seen has frankly been pretty poorly thought out, with 80% misunderstandings and 20% "The data could have been more optimal", as it always can be (backblaze haven't made a scientific study), but as long as people can't find a even better study, the data...

The card has the choice it IMHO always should use. Send an alarm when it hits an URE, continue the rebuilding, and warn about the URE in the log. For most people, 99.9% recovery is better than 0%

I see many articles claiming that the controller will automatically fail the rebuild if it runs into a URE (unrecoverable read error) during a rebuild, is that actually the case for areca-cards, or others? Seems like pretty stupid behavior.

Jottaclouad has unlimited for 6 Dollars a month, I have no experience with them, just throwing it out there as an alternative to the two others.

Yeah, but my original claim was that R5 was the best choice for 4 disks. For for instance 8 i would rather choose r6.

You still have 50% more data for the same price Thats a false dilemma, you are neither guaranteed to loose data with r5, or guaranteed not to loose data on r6. I personally would run backup either way, and I have never been in the situation of two drive failures within a few days of each other.

While it is true that R6 is safer, "losing" half the space is a big hit, and a major cost.

Hmm, I would say for 4 disks, Raid5 is the best choice.

Seems like a nice (although maybe slightly expensive) board, however, it doesn't support the Xeon E3s

My application is a fileserver. - Yes, I already have a controller-card, and I can see me adding 1 or 2 more or a 10 Gb network-card in the future. - No i don't need discreet video. - I already have more than 14 hard drives. But 14 ports on the motherboard is enough. My experience so far...

Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I am bit skeptical to the lack of ports though, I want something which is flexible for some years, so only to expansion slots is a bit on the low side :(

Does anybody have a recommendations when it comes to a motherboard for a fileserver with a raid-card? It must support Xeon E3v3, I am looking at a Asus P9D WS, is that a ok choice? Having dual intel gigabit is a plus, but it would be nice with more sata-ports. Is there any upside with going with...

My thoughts: I din't disagree with what he is saying, an I don't think anyone else here does either. If you can set TLER off, by all means, do that, I just don't think that is very important, I think the gain is minimal, I would put it far down on the list of priorities, with the amount of good...

The TLER is what, 5-6 seconds of trying to recover? Would be interesting to see how many errors are not recoverable after 5 seconds, but are recoverable after over 5 seconds.

My experience has been best with hitachi desktop drives. Never given me any trouble in RAID-applications. Why would you want to not have TLER?

Hitachis reliability in my experience is much more hit than the competition, which is more hit and miss in my experience, I just hope this is a "proper" hitachi-drive, not some rebadged WD.

So do I, but backblaze have done testing with enterprise drives too (although with a more limited amount), and their fault-rates was more or less the same as desktop drives.

Unfortunately not that surprising based on my own experiences. It would have been great if the other manufacturers where up to Hitachis levels.

Thanks for the tip, hooking a cheap expander might be a solution, I will get 8 drives from it + 4 from the motherboard (the input for the expander will then be the 4 free ports on my existing sas-card) But how about something like this...

The LSI one is pretty expensive seems like a bit overkill for mye use?

Thanks for the tip, but don't i risk compability problems with regular consumer sata-drives with a regular sas-expander?

I have a fileserver which i am upgrading, I have an areca sas raid card with 24 ports in it. But I am only using 20 for "useful stuff", I plan to use about 10-12 old sata-drives to store some less useful stuff that doesn't need backup on a stablebit drivepool-setup. But what is the easiest and...

Absolutely, off site backup is safer, but having a safer source and off site backup is even safer. Its an individual choice based on the value of data compared to other things. You don't have to choose, you can have both RAID and a properly configured backup solution. (or maybe even having...

Backup doesn't give 100% safety, so the reliability of the source is not irreelevant. RAID can give better reliability if properly set up.

Well, as stated in my original post, i want it to compare "Source A" with "Destination B", and copy the files that are different to "Destination C", that is, i want it to compare two folders and copy the different files to a third folder.

But can you copy to a third medium with that setup? It seems to me that is only possible with the "fast copy"-function, and that is not on the free version?

Thanks for the tip, it looks like a nice program, but doesn't seem to have the ability to copy onto a third medium?

I am looking for a solution to my backup-needs. I need a program which just simply copies files, not incremental-backup, images or anything. I have two server connected by VPN, and the program must work like this: Compare server A and server B, any files not on server A are deleted from B...

Is TS gateway very important for a home user? It doesn't seem that useful (although my knowledge of it is limitid, so i might be wrong), and joining a domain seems like a lot of hassle on the home-front if you have several computers around the house with several different uses and different...

Thanks for the info Guldan. I don't plan on using storage spaces, but ReFS seem to have some added resiliency to errors also without storage spaces. To bad the performance is so bad. I just can't understand how a company with the resources of MS can be so behind on things like file systems and...

How safe is it to move some arrays from an old areca card (1260), to my new one (1882-ix, the latter i sas, the former sata). Is it usually a success? And if it fails, can I just reconnect it to the old card, or do i risk braking something? I have backup, but i would rather not have to go...

Thank you for the feedback :) Well, the claims are backed up by thorough benchmarks. Is 90 MB write in a "raid5"-like storage space setup? ReFS carries a performance hit over NTFS? How big? And do you know why? Thanks for the advise, but I already have a prefered setup for parity and...