Resurrecting my WHS, what drive load out?

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oldpablo

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A long time ago my WHS motherboard died, and I simple pulled the drives and attached them to my media center because I was busy. Fast forward to today and I'm ready to resurrect it. The question I have is how to deploy the three 1.5TB drives I now have at my disposal AND do you think I should do WHS v1 or v2. I loved the deduplication of v1 and the easy add/remove of any size drive at any time, but I imagine there are probably some benefits to using the new one despite the removal of these wonderful options. Here is what I have to work with and I can add more later if necessary:

Two 1.5TB 7200RPM and one 1.5TB 5900RPM drive

So do I do:

*3TB RAID0 with 1.5TB backup drive for the most critical?
*Let WHS v1 use both drives as one pool and do it's job duplicating the important stuff.
*Seperate data to both 1.5TB drives and backup again to the 5900?
*Other things

I'm pretty sure all the things I care about right now will fit inside one 1.5TB drive.
 
if anything you should do raid 1. if you need the performance of raid 0 for a file you should just store it locally on a raid 0 or ssd... the last thing you want is your server failing

granted i have never had a drive fail but the risk is present

like for pictures, movies, music or basically anything you would put on whs raid 0 is not necessary so why take the risk
 
OldPueblo said:
*3TB RAID0 with 1.5TB backup drive for the most critical?
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Isn't that RAID5, only RAID5 doesn't have all the work involved?

I know RAID isn't backup- but you should have external backups anyway.
 
I guess it just seems to make the backup redundant if I do RAID1, which was my original thought. I'm not taking the backup offsite or anything after all.
 
jen4950 said:
Isn't that RAID5, only RAID5 doesn't have all the work involved?

I know RAID isn't backup- but you should have external backups anyway.
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No I wouldn't be doing three drives all together with parity. Just pairing the 7200RPM together and using the 5900 to backup anything important off of them.
 
OldPueblo said:
do you think I should do WHS v1 or v2.
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Great article on which WHS you should go with:
http://www.wegotserved.com/2011/04/07/windows-home-server-windows-home-server-2011-worth-upgrading


OldPueblo said:
So do I do:

*3TB RAID0 with 1.5TB backup drive for the most critical?
*Let WHS v1 use both drives as one pool and do it's job duplicating the important stuff.
*Seperate data to both 1.5TB drives and backup again to the 5900?
*Other things

I'm pretty sure all the things I care about right now will fit inside one 1.5TB drive.
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#1 is just plain insane IMO to do with your data.
#2 is the tried and true method. Though it does have its share of issues
#3 is the better of the three listed options so far if you can turn that 5900 drive into an external drive.
#4 is something I'm still thinking on.

OldPueblo said:
I guess it just seems to make the backup redundant if I do RAID1, which was my original thought. I'm not taking the backup offsite or anything after all.
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Actually it doesn't. Since the "backup" drive is still inside the server itself, it doesn't count as a backup but just another copy of the data. An actual backup is seperate from the location of the main data.
 
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