Windows Home Server 2011

[Pats_PC]

What is better, WHS V1 with drive pool Or, WHS V2 without.

[Whaler_99]

Depends - do you want to use drive pool? The you are stuck with V1. If not, the V2 is a lot better, based on the 2008 kernel. Windows 8, Server 2012 and such also have something similar called Storage Pools, but they are not without their issues as well...

[Pats_PC]

Hi Everyone, i am thinking about making a whs box with 6 2tb hard drives, lsi 9240-8i raid card, Intel Pentium, 8gb of ram, and 4gb nic's ( 1 is on-board) and a 16 port gigabit switch. i have 6pc's. 5 are in one room but have multiple nic's so i was going to run 8 cat 5e cables, to them, just on the other side of the wall of the whs and switch. Then i want to run 4 lines downstairs, i already have one from my router, so all traffic will be directed through the switch. i want to backup all my photos, videos, music, vm's and OS iso's. i don't want to spend more than $1500. If anyone can give advice that will be greatly appreciated thanks!

[wpirobotbuilder]

WHS v1 is end-of-life as of now, and v2 will go end-of-life in 2016. Yes it will last a while, but if you're looking for long-term support, you'd be better off with Windows 8 (if you're just looking for storage pooling), or Server 2012 or Linux if you need server-level features.

http://www.wegotserved.com/2012/07/05/microsoft-draws-windows-home-server-era-close/

http://www.wegotserved.com/2012/07/03/building-windows-8-home-server-introduction/

[Pats_PC]

Good point but i am looking at implementing an active directory, not sure if WHS 2011 can do that, otherwise i will have to run sever 2008r2 or Server 2012

[bill]

WHS's line can not act as a Domain Controller. You'd either need to use the full Microsoft server or samba 4 in linux is suppose to be able to act as a Domain Controller. You could also look at the Essential 2012 server product. It's only $400 and will set up a domain as part of its installation. You can even give it a test run and download it from microsoft.

[Pats_PC]

ok thanks for the advice, i will give it a try!

[looney]

Hi Everyone, i am thinking about making a whs box with 6 2tb hard drives, lsi 9240-8i raid card, Intel Pentium, 8gb of ram, and 4gb nic's ( 1 is on-board) and a 16 port gigabit switch. i have 6pc's. 5 are in one room but have multiple nic's so i was going to run 8 cat 5e cables, to them, just on the other side of the wall of the whs and switch. Then i want to run 4 lines downstairs, i already have one from my router, so all traffic will be directed through the switch. i want to backup all my photos, videos, music, vm's and OS iso's. i don't want to spend more than $1500. If anyone can give advice that will be greatly appreciated thanks!

are you planing to run the raid of the 9240-8i or are you going for software raid?

It would be a lot cheaper to get a IBM M1015 ($100), flash it to "it" firmware and run flexraid ($60)

[Pats_PC]

Hi Everyone, i am thinking about making a whs box with 6 2tb hard drives, lsi 9240-8i raid card, Intel Pentium, 8gb of ram, and 4gb nic's ( 1 is on-board) and a 16 port gigabit switch. i have 6pc's. 5 are in one room but have multiple nic's so i was going to run 8 cat 5e cables, to them, just on the other side of the wall of the whs and switch. Then i want to run 4 lines downstairs, i already have one from my router, so all traffic will be directed through the switch. i want to backup all my photos, videos, music, vm's and OS iso's. i don't want to spend more than $1500. If anyone can give advice that will be greatly appreciated thanks!

Ok that is a lot cheaper, but it can run raid 5 so there is no need for flexraid. Correct me if i am wrong please.