A 32GB SSD drive for $60 after MiR sounded like a good idea, especially since that would be great for a Windows Home Server C: drive, so I purchased a Patriot PS-100 32GB. (It should be noted that I have not seen the price for $60 again in the following 3 months) 64MB of cache sounded better than a...
Updated the SSD Drive and Controller List with: OCZ m84 LSI and Indilinx controllers; Crucial M225 64GB, 128GB, 256GB drives
Just as a note to anyone running multiple large disks in Raid 6 for Windows Home Server. I was setting up new Raid 6 arrays on the WHS this weekend, controlled by an Adaptec 31605 and was greeted by a nice error message. WHS is limited to four volumes per physical drive using basic discs. A quick search of...
Updated the SSD Drive and Controller List with: G.Skill Falcon 64GB, 128GB, 256GB; G.Skill Titan 128GB, 256GB; Intel X25-M 80GB, 160GB; Intel X25-E 80GB, 160GB; Kingston SSDNow M-Series 80GB, 160GB
Updated the SSD Drive and Controller List with: OCZ m84, p84, Solid V2, and SuperTalent RaidDrive Series
SSD's are becoming more commonplace and are available from a multitude of vendors. Despite a high level of vendor diversity for the drives themselves, there are only a few SSD controller options available, and the vendors do not necessarily list which controller a given drive has. In an effort to simplify the research process, the following list will be...
Microsoft Windows Home Server allows for multiple user accounts, and each user account can be set up with different permissions to various folders. This can be an invaluable tool to restrict access to documents and folders on a WHS. First the list from least to most access is:
None - The user cannot view or otherwise modify files in the...
Question: How does a OCZ Vertex 120GB compare to an 8 drive 15k RPM 2.5" SAS Raid 5 array with a fast Adaptec 5805 controller?
Answer: It is slower... kind of... but both options have some great features!
So at this point, what can a lone Indilinx based OCZ Vertex do?
As one can tell, the OCZ Vertex gets handily destroyed in...
Recently I received a question regarding how much memory (RAM) is supported in Windows Home Server.
The answer is fairly straightforward. Microsoft built WHS upon the Windows Server 2003 32-bit kernal. Practically speaking, this means that WHS does not have support for RAM amounts greater than 4 gigabytes (GB) thanks to Physical Address Extension (PAE).
With that being said, the actual...
How easy is it to use one PC to initiate a manual backup of another PC using Windows Home Server? Extremely. This guide will illustrate.
Here's the video.
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j1WYoXGeOo
For those that can't see the video, or want a quick guide here are the steps:
Using the Windows Home Server Console, login to your Windows Home Server
Go to the Computers and Backups Menu
Select...