Re: WHS Reliable Hardware?

[Steve Pillings <byronsp@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm using the tranquil bbs2 atom PC with 5 1.5 tb samsung Eco drives

All working fine so far with me. Though this week tranquil releases a pci
controller card update to stop possible corruption. Not updated so far

Steve

On 30 Aug 2010, at 08:12, "mwgardner2000" <groups@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a home built Windows Home Server V1 box. I'm very happy with
the functionality of WHS (the PC backup feature has saved the day on more
than one occasion!), but I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the
reliability of the system and the hardware in particular. WHS often reports
disk failures, but when I go in and have a look, everything seems fine. By
often, I mean several times a day.....
>
> The box has an 8.2TB storage pool and comprises:
> - Asus M2N32 WS Professional mobo
> - 2.40 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
> - 4 GB RAM,
> - Highpoint 1820 PCI disk controller
> - Highpoint 2320 PCI disk controller
> - WD 500 GB disks (4 WD5000YS)
> - WD 1TB disks (3 x WD10EACS)
> - WD 2TB disks (2 x WD20EADS)
>
> The reliability problem has been over an extended period (including
when the box was previously running Windows 2003 SBS), and over time
changes have been made to improve things. I have had at least 3 disks
exchanged by WD (can't fault their service on that) but my suspicions as to
the root cause of the problems have for a long time centred on the
controllers. The controllers on the mobo in particular seem to be flakey
(NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA Controller and Marvell 614x SATA2
Controller) and installing the Highpoint controllers seems to have helped.
>
> However, the latest problems being reported by the system relate to
the 1TB drives which are all on the Highpoint 1820 controller. WHS reports
a disk failure; the console show the disks as missing, but without
intervention the console updates and everything looks normal again.
>
> There have been some postings on here about enormous WHS servers
(Phil!) and I'm wondering if anyone else sees reliability issues? What
hardware do others use in their WHS home built boxes?
>
> Whilst I like the functionality, I'm reluctant to invest in new PC
hardware and am thinking of going for a large NAS instead. I will keep a
WHS in some form for the PC backup functionality if nothing else.
>
> Any ideas / comments / suggestions welcome!
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
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