Just as a quick update to those who are following this build. Some adjustments have been made ove the past week.
First, I finally decided...
Most people who build custom home servers will be able to articulate the cost per GB (cost/GB) of their drives. Yet this is a...
Since there are some requests here are the servers side by-side. The New WHS is on burn-in duty while the old WHS has had...
Just as an update. I installed the second Adaptec 31605 today, filling all 16 ports with 8x WD Greens, 6x Hitachi 2TB, and 2x...
Continuing to test the new WHS box, I was treated to yet another new Western Digital Green failure this week. Ridiculous!
Of the 15 Seagate...
At around 1:30AM I woke up to what I believed was the fire alarm. After about 30 seconds outside in the cold, I realized that...
After work today I got the server up and running doing a build/ verify Raid 6 array on the 8x new Western Digital Green...
First off, this is not a typical WHS build, and it was not meant to be. For the majority of users, a HP MediaSmart...
About 10 months ago I decided to enter the world of the Windows Home Server. My storage arrays had outstripped my Cosmos S's capacity, and...
Introduction
For Small Business Servers and home servers, one thing becomes apparent, the need to use raid with large data sets. Raid 1 and software...