3/9/2023 0 Comments Amahi raid monitorI don’t know why, but USB hubs tend to fail when dealing with large amounts of data transfers. ![]() I had also picked up a USB 3.0 motherboard adapter, giving me 2 extra USB 3.0 ports. It’s a pity it only came with 1 stick of RAM, but do I really need more than 8GB of RAM for a file server? There was some free headphones too, but that’ll probably end up in my pile of useless junk in my garage. It also had 8 on-board SATA ports as well as onboard graphics. The main reason this combo worked out was because it included everything (sans case and power supply). I had picked up a barebone combo from Newegg a couple weeks ago for less than $200, which included BIOSTAR Hi-Fi A85W, AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz, G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM. I decided that I need to build a new rig for my storage server, mainly due to the fact I wanted to take advantage that my external USB drives were USB 3.0. I’m happy to say I’ve officially uninstalled and completely removed SoftRAID from my machine.Īwhile back, I had read about Greyhole being an alternative to Windows Home Server Drive Extender, and finally decided to check it out. And I’m not the only one that’s hit into this problem. I’ve sent numerous emails to their support requesting the ability to set a drive to read-only until the mirrored drive is remounted or replaced, but it’s fallen on deaf ears. The rebuild was the worse part as it took 2 days for the drive to be fully rebuilt. It required you to reinitialize the drive and add it as if it was a brand new drive to the array. Things would be fine if you could just re-add the drive to the array, but unfortunatey it didn’t work like that. But when you did reboot, there was a 25% chance that the USB drive wouldn’t be mounted in time before SoftRAID times out and marks the array as degraded. Things worked great as long as you didn’t reboot. Both arrays consists of 2 external USB 3TB drives. I had set up 2 volumes, a 6TB RAID-0 array and a 3TB RAID-1 array. ![]() Ultimately, I was highly disappointed with the software given its price. In the meantime, I had switched to using Macs and had began using SoftRAID as my storage solution. I was extremely sad when they announced that Drive Extender would be removed from Windows Home Server 2011, meaning I would have to look for a new solution. You can specify how many copies of a file you wanted for each shared folder, therefore providing redundancy. It allowed you to add as many drives into a pool and then create shared folders. So I had used Windows Home Server when it first came out and loved their Drive Extender feature.
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