I am using WHS v1 and it has been a long time using the same and by now I have added 9 x 2TB WD Green drives variations EADS and EARS and now I am willing to switch to Windows Home Server 2011 and I have took out all the other had and I am just having one 2TB drive from my v1 system along with a hodge podge of 1TB, 640GB for taking up the slack for getting Windows Home Server 2011 running, I have found that the RAID is the best possible solution as far as data redundancy is concerned if there is no DE in Windows Home Server 2011 but then I personally think that RAID 1 is just a waste of time if I will be using it for regular backup, I am finding RAID 5 to the best solution taking in to account that I am having all WD Green drives, currently I have set up in RAID 5 with six 2TB drives for 10TB storage and that’s the amount of the space that I need, I have tried using onboard RAID controller and the performance seems to be quite good but then I have heard that using Windows Software dynamic disk RAID 5 is the safest as windows is aware of controlling the RAID but then I am not that very sure about the same, I think that I will be getting a better performance with it as I have been using WHS for data, video, music storage and streaming and I just do not need 100MB+ transfers, I was planning to get one more 2TB WD Green drive (EARX) so to make a total of four 2TB drives for backup but then as far as I am aware the consumer level RAID cards gives horrible performance, so here I just wanted to know that setting up an external storage using Windows dynamic disks in a RAID 5 configuration will be a better idea or not, I really want to control the cost till it is possible but then I am preferring to have 10TB storage with 6TB backup, in my case the home server is Core 2 Duo E6850 3GHz, 4GB DDR2 800, Gigabyte G33M along with ICH9R controller, any suggestion regarding the same will be helpful.
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