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The only drive I use hardware raid with is for the system drive which is mirrored. ( the onboard controller ). Raid5 controllers are pricey between 300-500 $US and the difference buys you several drives easy and might be overkill. The Supermicro controller I use is 8 x SATA II 64-bit...

Thanks Roush , I was not sure which functions they have disabled in WHS vs 2003 Server. If you look at their msg board usually they say only 1 NIC is supported. They only drive I use raid is the system drive which I have mirrored because I really dislike to reinstall the OS when you have it...

Hi Nbat , I have a similar setup and use 2 sata x 8 controllers ( Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 ) besides the on board sata. They work well with WHS , didn't get them to work on FreeNAS though ( maybe I didn't try hard enough ). My system drive is mirrored using the on board (Tyan 2882) sata the...

FreeNAS is great. I use it at the moment as a media server for my music collection. I tried the software raid5 which works nice and needs less CPU power than I thought it would. It has nice monitoring tools like drive temperature and other smart info and can send email notices if something...

Thanks Ben, I remember coming across this link. I have it working now. Got one new router ( probably not needed ) and setup 2 new networks 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x Maybe WHS is more picky or I was lucky the time before. I can access WHS from both networks now like my older one. Next...

I'm a little at a lose here with WHS. I have 2 separate networks with internet connections which are hooked up to a Win2kPro machine with 2 nics just for data sharing. ( no bridge ) This setup works fine and I want to keep the 2 Networks separate. I build a WHS and want to hook it up the...