It is inevitable that at some point you will loose a hard drive. Recently I upgraded my servers to 3T Seagate drives so that I could get the same storage with less drives, faster performance, and more room for expansion. As luck would have it, one of the new drives died after only a couple [...]
Here is a short video on expanding you RAID 5 Array using the Highpoint Version 2 Software.
Here is a short video on using the Version 2 Highpoint Web based software. This version is much simpler and more streamline for both creating and expansion of your Volume. Included are the instructions for initializing and formatting your array Creatubg a RAID 5 Volume Initializing and Formatting Your Volume
Intro and Test Setup Following in the tradition of testing each release, here is a summary of the testing I did on the RTM version of Server 2012 Storage Spaces. Since this has the final code, the hope was that it was tuned and tweaked to provide the maximum performance and stability. Issues Right [...]
In following tradition, below are the updated benchmarks of the Release Candidate of Server Essentials. As you can see from the benchmarks below, things have not improved in terms of performance. In fact, some tests were a bit slower. I am using the same hardware in the same configuration as before for the testing. I [...]
I have been testing and using storage spaces on Sever Essentials since its release. I am using it to back up two systems as well as for some Movies, Music, and Photos. Mostly testing and very light use. On Tuesday I got a bit of a surprise I did not expect. Before I get into [...]
Back in March, I did a post on the performance results of storage spaces in Windows 8 as well as the server product. I think it was pretty obvious that I was really not impressed with either, however the version for Windows 8 was far worse in the area of performance. Given that it was [...]
Back in March of the this year I spent some time testing Storage Spaces on the Server 8 Beta, along with the Storage Spaces in Windows 8. As you can see from my prior articles, I was not too impressed with the performance in the earlier versions. Now that they have released new versions, I [...]
As I mentioned in part 1, I wanted to upgrade my WHS 2011 server with faster and larger drives. My WHS is becoming more and more the center of everything I do, from streaming content, to syncing my cloud services, to ripping and transcoding movies. As I am increasing the use of my server, I [...]
No matter what kind of hardware you buy sometimes things go bad. I have been running two servers for quite some time now. One as my Windows Home Server, and the other is Server 2008R2 which I use not only for backup, but use as a Hyper-V server to run a variety of VM’s. As [...]
Here is a short video How to create a stripe or mirror in Storage Spaces
In the first part, I performance tested the parity volume to see how it stacked up against a hardware RAID. Now that we have seen the huge performance impact of parity volumes, it was now time to see how the Mirroring as well as the stripe-JBOD (drives are striped with no resiliency) performed. Original article [...]
Ever since I got back from CES I have been waiting for this controller card. The thought of mixing some SSD’s with hard drives seemed exciting to me. I realize that the Z68 performs many of the same features but what attracted me most was this card could be used on any motherboard, as well as [...]
Recently I did some testing and a short video on Storage Spaces in Windows 8. Although very easy to use, the performance was not very impressive. I wanted to see if both the process, as well as the results would be the same under the new Server 8. Link to Windows 8 article: Storage Spaces [...]
Storage Spaces has been the buzz since the release of the consumer preview and the beta of Server 8. Naturally the attraction is the flexibility of the Storage Spaces and how easy it is to configure it. That being said, it also lays down the challenge, as so many DE replacements before it, to see [...]
