RE: Re: NAS or WHS

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm ... after a little more digging it seems that shares on WHS can
either
be duplicated or not - seems that MS don't support "RAID" like
strategies
under WHS - is that correct? Do you really have to have everything
duplicated (mirrored) to have data security or can you actually have a RAID
type of setup (which is still extendable) under WHS?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 November 2008 01:05
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: NAS or WHS
>
> Given all the discussion about WHS recently there's one thing I'd like
> to know - unfortunately the amount of data I'm playing with on my
> server is a bit on the hefty side (about 14Tb at the moment) so I
don't
> really want to have to start migrating all that data over to a new OS
> just to try and see whether it works.
>
> What I would like to know is - if you have a "pool" of
storage (for
> example my "Movies" collection) set up as a software RAID5
array can
> you still dynamically expand that array?
>
> Also, what happens if you shut down the server and physically move
> drives around so they're on different SATA connections? Is WHS
> intelligent enough to work out that the data is still intact and *NOT*
> assume that the data needs to be rebuilt or the array has been
trashed?
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Geoff H
> > Sent: 28 November 2008 10:16
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: NAS or WHS
> >
> > Thanks for all of the responses. It looks like WHS seems to be
the
> > preferred choice.
> >
> > I shall read the forums to see what experiences people have had.
I
> have
> > read some of the reviews on wegotserved and the Tranquil PC
systems
> > come
> > out well, so this is probably my preferred choice.
> >
> > Geoff



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