My goal when i setup and tested the raid card several weeks ago was to have a solution in place and working with server 2008 r2 and to be able to port that hardware and its contents into a whs 2011. The decision to remove drive extender from the next version of windows home peter bright nov 26, 2010 2. Windows home server 2011 and small business server 2011 using gpt and raid 5 or 6. Compability of drives for windows home server 2011. By manuel masiero, achim roos 06 october 2011 we got our hands on four sas 6 gbs raid controllers from adaptec, areca, highpoint, and lsi and ran them through raid 0, 5, 6, and 10 workloads to. Using 64bit addressing lets you add more than 4gb of ram.
After backing up the clients to the whs, i use server backup to make a. Notice the raid 5 arrays appear as one drive and are invisible to whs 2011. Currently i have 2x 1gb sata drives in a hp microserver in raid 1 and running windows home server 2011. Resetting server backup catalog on windows home server. Windows home server was designed for households and home based businesses that have more than one personal computer. So although there are better options out there for your raid 5 needs such as the adaptec 2258200r 5405, i prefer the rocket raid 2300 for a home server if you are going with raid 10. Jan 20, 20 i was wondering if anyone knows if raid 5 can be setup with whs 2011 as the os.
Apr 14, 2011 before you install windows home server 2011, rtfm seriously im about to install the final release of windows home server 2011. Jun 18, 2011 creating an array using a highpoint raid card. Sas raid adapter driver for windows server 2008 r2 64bit. Windows home server 2011 and raid 5 windows server. Windows home server codenamed quattro, q, and vail is a home server operating system from microsoft. I am new to raid, so please forgive this newbie question.
Here are my thoughts on why windows home server is headed to extinction. Oct 18, 2012 i am making a new home build of a system for windows home server 2011 64bit and im using a computer case with 7 bays for hard drives. The author is terry walsh, title is windows home server versus windows home server 2011 is it worth upgrading posted on april 7th, 2011. Here is a raid 10 implementation that will look a lot like windows home server v1 in terms of redundancy versus capacity tradeoffs, but will be quite a bit faster. I powered up the second computer, booted windows home server 2011 in safe mode, loaded a couple of drivers, and voila. Good point on the windows 7 x64 server 2008 x64 windows home server 2011 compatible. So although there are better options out there for your raid 5 needs such as the adaptec 2258200r 5405, i prefer the rocket raid 2300 for a. Is raid 5 compatible or able to run on windows home server 2011. In this video i install the os and configure it to my needs. There may be options outside of the normal process. Resetting server backup catalog on windows home server 2011. Lets start by looking at why whs 2011 is a good fit for your home.
I am going to purchase a hp microserver and wish to use 4 2tb drives in a raid 5. Its primary purpose is to provide the solutions of connected pcs in the home system environment for an automated backup system, file sharing system, remote access, and print server read more. Aug 08, 2011 whs 2011 few questions incl software raid 5. Also, windows raid is considered the worst mainstream raid around. I recently set up a bootable raid 5 array on a dell 110 server that ran windows small business server 2011 something very, very similar to whs 2011. Amahi is the solution for making home networking simple and easy.
If so are there specifications in which need to be met to be able to run raid 5, and what are they. How to add additional storage to a windows home server 2011. Combining windows software raid with raid 5 with cheap consumer sata drives is a planned disaster. Here is the issue, microsoft never pushed any features from. All testing done with crystaldiskmark and atto onboard testing. Windows home server 2011 raid solutions experts exchange. Windows home server 2011 drive bender so i tried many different raid settings, combinations, onboard sata iii and the raid card and here is what i have come up with. I am making a new home build of a system for windows home server 2011 64bit and im using a computer case with 7 bays for hard drives. Its like a textbook example of a perfect storm of bad storage decisions coming together. So as long as a failed drive is replaced and the arrary rebuilt prior to another failures, there should be no data loss at all. Nov 14, 20 part 2 of my windows home server 2011 video.
Windows home server 2011 adding 3tb drives with the dashboard and disk management duration. Drive extender allows users to use any size hard drive jbodjust a bunch of drives in their system and consolidate them so it looked like a single. Windows home server is considered a client software solution and would not be supported option for the enterprise level perc 6i controller. And of course this shows you the final product and the configuration of your drives as it appears in the disk management window. Highpoint rocketraid 2680sgl 8channel pciexpress x4 sas 3gb. I have been looking at raid 5 cards as i heard raid 5 is the better and i would have used the motherboard raid but it doesnt support raid 5, so my question it how good would a cheaper raid 5 controller be to a more expensive one. Normally, i would just insert the dvd and follow the prompts. Windows home server 2011 is 64bit only, but its a welcome upgrade from 32bit. Not possible to install windows sbs 2011 essentials or home. Find answers to windows home server 2011 raid from the expert community at experts exchange.
I would like to use several new hard drives in raid 10 that i have on hand pairing them with drives of the same capicity but with different brands and different speeds. Jun 29, 2015 the box used to be a windows home server 2011, but i recently switched to windows 8. I would like to use several new hard drives in raid 10 that i. I am wanting to upgrade from v1 to 2011, but want to keep all my media in 1 single folder and i have a lot of media. I was possibly going to use freenas however i am more confortable with a windows os.
Jul 18, 20 i also pulled the p400 raid card and slapped it into the computer as well, while leaving the drives powered by the 1st computer. If you have multiple pcs with increasingly large amounts of digital photography, music, video, and documents, then protecting, organizing, and connecting this digital media can be a challenging task. Windows small business server essentials 2011 windows home server 2011 use the following workaround in order to correctly install the windows server 2008 drivers for these operating systems or use the latest windows sbs 2011 drivers for the series 6 controller which can be downloaded from our support site. Windows home server 2011 and small business server 2011 using gpt and raid 10 overall, to the inexperienced user the biggest issue is that it will take 10 minutes reading blogs like this one, or motherboard manuals to setup these arrays. No issues with the card at all, had to purchase a couple sff8087 cables to connect the drives, booted, initialized as a raid 5 array in the cards bios, installed windows home server 2011 64bit english 1pk dsp oem system builder dvd 10 client and then format. Personally, i still have a production windows home server v1 machine running, but only ended up implementing a test system for windows home server 2011. I currently have a mirroring raid setup on the whs and i would plan to use acronis to image one of the hard drives in case i wanted to ever go back to whs. Find answers to using software raid disk mirror on windows small business server 2011 essentials from the expert community at experts exchange. The box used to be a windows home server 2011, but i recently switched to windows 8. Ive found that the streaming built into windows home server 2011 is adequate in general, if youre not a power. Windows home server 2011 has now arrived, and with it a bevy of new featuresand one key feature of the older version removed.
What i did know is that i could install a different os and not effect the data as the array as it is stored on the card not in the os. Windows home server 2011 creating a drive mirror youtube. Windows home server 2011 and small business server 2011 rc. Resetting server backup catalog on windows home server 2011 i use whs 2011 for client backups. With this latest version of whs, i now have sharepoint foundation free limited version of sharepoint running for the family to share pictures, files, calendar events and collaboration. The way you use this vantec 4channel 6port card can be simple or it can be complex, but the included users manual does a very good job of explaining it to you. After backing up the clients to the whs, i use server backup to make a second copy a backup of the. Best raid controller, best raid card for a home server. Windows home server is a home server operating system based on windows server 2003 r2. You may try a client driver windows 7 to match the 2011 whs since the controller is used with some client workstations sold by dell. Whs 2011 to sbs essentials 2011 hdd raid backup and restore.
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