They recommend a parity array is best spread over 8 spindles. At the moment I have an 4 port lsi card with 4x WD Red 3tb drives used as a redundant array and it does ebb and flow as it copies (as it fills and empties its cache) but I've been hitting over 100mbs - it seems best with smaller files rather than the large iso etc. I have had some decent speeds out of storage spaces. I suppose they want everybody to use powershell. simple things like searching for some control panel feature - say services or such like does a search but then categorises them and only shows you the first "app" category which of course has 0 searches and you have to expand the control panel section. Why would you want a touch interface on a server? finding stuff isnt fun. Early days yet so nothing to report apart from the horrible win8 gui. Effectively I am using the same hardware simultaneously thanks to the virtual nature. I'm using full blown Standard 2012 on a new server I've just built and then using Hyper-V virtual machines running whs2011 and essentials 2012 side by side to make sure I can do everything on 2012 I could with 2011. Has anyone moved from WHS 2011 to WS 2012 Foundation (upgrade isn't supported AFAIK) ? I'd like to know it can do everything my WHS 2011 can (specifically software RAID 5) with the addition of backing up Windows 8 (GPT) client PCs.
WHS 2011 costs around £35, the cheapest version of WS 2012 (Foundation, OEM only) is over £150!! WS 2012 Essentials is close to £300! The MS "solution" is to move to Windows Server 2012 - however, there's significant cost involved. I now have 2 Windows 8 PCs that I can't backup automatically onto my WHS 2011 system, and it seems that MS will NOT be fixing this in WHS 2011.
BTW, if I'm incorrect about this, feel free to correct me
WHS 2011 will NOT backup a client PC with a GPT disk, only those with MBR style disk partitioning. However, there's one thing that's a problem, and that's backup of Windows 8 PCs.īy default, when Windows 8 installs it will convert the disk to a GPT disk. I'm currently using WHS 2011 on my home server/NAS and in general am very happy with it.
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