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Exclude System Disk from Server Storage in Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 Vail

Posted on 29 April 2010. Tags: agility, conjecture, counterparts, default installation, disk space requirement, hard drives, home server, Norco, Raid 1, redundancy, rpc, SAS, server machines, server storage, server v2, SSD, system os, vail, vertex, whs v2, WHS V2 Vail, Windows Home Server, windows home server v2, windows home server vail, x25

Many Windows Home Server machines utilize a smaller OS disk (oftentimes in Raid 1 for redundancy) and then large SATA 3.5″ disks for storage. Common 2.5″ disks are laptop drives as well as SSDs. Another factor influencing their popularity in home-built WHS boxes is the fact that the Norco RPC-4220 (a popular home server 4U rackmount enclosure) has the ability to house two 2.5″ hard drives in addition to 20 SAS or SATA drives. Smaller form factor drives tend to be of lower capacity than larger 3.5″ counterparts, so some users may be wondering with the new requirement of a 160GB Operating System (OS) disk in Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 Vail if it is possible to lower the OS disk space requirement.

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OCZ Vertex 120GB: Updated Raid 0 Benchmarks Intel RST 9.6.0.1014

Posted on 29 March 2010. Tags: atto benchmark, atto benchmarks, Benchmark, benchmark numbers, crystaldiskmark, Intel, max speed, ocz, ocz technology, raid 0 1, raid 0 setup, Raid 5, Review, SSD, storage technology, v1.5 firmware, vertex

Shortly after posting my last benchmarks on the dual OCZ Vertex 120GB in Raid 0 setup, I received an e-mail to try the new Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 9.6.0.1014 drivers, which were supposed to enable TRIM in raid. These new drivers were released, taken down, then re-released in March 2010. The big improvement was supposed to be TRIM is enabled for Raid 0, 1, 10, but not enabled for Raid 5. Unfortuneately, this seems not to be working so the best that can be done is the background garbage collection in firmware v1.5 for OCZ’s Indilinx based SSDs. Since I am only working with two 120GB drives at the moment, I decided to give them a shot. Just for reference, the original benchmarks were done with the standard, off the shelf, Windows 7 64-bit RTM drivers.

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OCZ Vertex 120GB: Raid 0 Benchmarks and OCZ RMA Review

Posted on 28 March 2010. Tags: corruption issues, data corruption, firmware version, home server, ocz, OCZ Vertex, performance, raid 0, Review, rma number, SSD, SSD Drive and Controller List, vertex, WHS

A few weeks ago, I had my main system’s OCZ Vertex 120GB drive die after a Firmware version 1.5 update. After applying the allegedly successful v1.5 firmware update, I started seeing data corruption issues. A few days later, the drive failed to be recognized by any system I own regardless of which onboard SATA controller I tried or even with raid card was used. Just to give an idea of the timeline:

Day 0- the SSD drive died, RMA request sent to OCZ (past working hours)
Day 1- SSD information such as serial numbers was given to OCZ and a RMA number was issued
Day 2 (Friday)- SSD was shipped to OCZ’s San Jose, CA facility (which is <20 miles away)
Day 5 (Monday)- SSD was delivered to OCZ
Day 9 (Friday)- Another SSD arrived via FedEx from OCZ in shrinkwraped retail packaging

Somewhere in there I ordered another 120GB Vertex from Amazon.com which arrived on Day 8 of the timeline above since I was running out of space anyway.