Add Areca controller to WHS server

[Bubber Jones]

I'd like to add an Areca controller to my WHS and put it into a Norco 4220, or 3216. Currently my hard drives are on my motherboard and a cheap SATA PCIe card.

If I put an Areca in, can I move the drives to the new card from where they are now without upsetting WHS and have it still see the drives and what's on them as they are?

 

[sabregen]

not likely. you'll have to create logical volumes on the Areca. the WHS OS will see the volumes behind the Areca, and will need drivers to access them. Areca doesn't do partition/drive pass-through, do you'll have to migrate your data from current SATA drives to temp storage, then build volumes on Areca, then copy back.

 

[Nacho]

Most areca hardware raid cards will support pass-through no problem.

Pass-through should (I don't remember exactly, all my disks on my 1280ml are in raids) show up the drives the same, not a raid volume.

 

[nitrobass24]

Depends on the RAID card, but most high-end Arecas will do pass-through like Nacho said.

Moving drives from different controllers and buses does not seem to affect WHS as long as it can read the volume.

 

[thebeephaha]

Depends on the RAID card, but most high-end Arecas will do pass-through like Nacho said.

Moving drives from different controllers and buses does not seem to affect WHS as long as it can read the volume.

Sometimes the naming scheme for the drives gets confused though when they are moved between controllers.