Migrating from WHSv1 to 2011 help needed.

[hawker1986]

Hey guys,

Not sure if anyone has done this yet or has any experience, but im having problems with stutter from my WHSv1 streaming vids, so im planning on heading to WHS2011. I need some advice on how best to retain my redundancy on the new OS without Drive extender. Also bear in mind im running this on 4 mobo ports + 2 SATA add in card.

ATM I have to 2x2TB HDDs duplicating all my data across each of them. Now im sure that im going to upgrade to 6x2TB when I make the move. So how do I go about arranging my drives. As I see it these are the options.

All the drives running in pairs in RAID1. Should give me good and easyt redundancy but this does limit my storage to 6TB

OS drive running RAID 1 and then 4 drives running in RAID5, should be 8TB storage, advantage of good data transfer, total 8TB

Finally all 6 drives running in software RAID 5, not sure if this is even possible using 2 controller cards as I am, presumably also good transfer speeds, should be 10TB storage.

Any advice, thoughts and help would be most welcome.

Cheers,

Hawker

 

[hawker1986]

Yeah im planning on dragging the data to an external drive then doing a fresh install. I also agree with the sentiments of not using DE like software given that that is what is causing my stutter problems and also relying on beta software for redundancy is a bit more than I can stomach. Not so concerned with data backup outside of the machine for media.

Hawker

 

[hawker1986]

Thanks for the input guys, having mulled this over I think that redundancy is the priority atm, given that im using 1TB atm and its taken me a number of years to accumulate this quantity of data. So ill probably go with 3x2 drives in RAID1. By the time I max this storage things will likely have moved along, ill probably be in my own home where I can run proper network cable and migrating the data from one machine to another will be less of a chore.

Hawker