Brendan Grant (who works on as a Software Development Engineer on the Windows Home Server Team) would probably not consider himself a modern day Chuck Yeager, but he has put together a Windows Home Server to test the limits of the mythical "16 terabyte barrier".
And... he did it! Well sort of (not physically anyway). What Brendan did was setup a 32TB WHS running under Hyper-V which, though unsupported, works just fine. He talks all about why the 16TB limit was thought to exist in the first place and also sheds some light on the 2TB per drive limit (a concern now that 2TB drives have come along).
So if you are dazzled by buzz words like HTSF, Master Boot Record and GUID Partition Table, check out his latest post.
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Good info, but if he's worried about the physical limitation of bus transfer speeds, then we're starting to talk about equipment that's not exactly home market. Fiber channel SANs with multi port HBA cards running MPIO in JBOD configurations is not exactly in the grasp of your average techie. It'd be fun to try though.
I was even thinking what bus saturation Donavon was going to have on his big server.
But most WHS boxes are not going to have the transaction levels of the corporate boxes.
But - I _would_ like to see some of those low power motherboards have more native SATA ports, low power dual core, etc. That way we could try to avoid some bottlenecks.
I am still torn on my next server build - geeks.com has some nice dual xeon servers with redundant PS for less than an HP but they'll suck down juice. Maybe a server case with dual atom 330 motherboards for "cold swap" capability om case one dies?
In my mind, the mobo is the weak link - if it dies, reserecting your WHS would be worse than a system drive failure. And mine is using a 6 year old repurposed eMachines celeron 2.0GHz mobo :(
@Kitty - Ive been pleased with the Intel Atom 330 mainboard. I even bought another for a different project. If you consider the MB as the weak link, it's pretty eash and inexpensive to pull and replace the Intel 330 board.
I've even replace mainboard from completely different systems. WHS picks up just fine after you install some needed drivers, but it will make you re-activate the OS (you only get 3 I think)
As far as more SATA ports goes, I'm playing with a VIA C7 board with 4 SATA ports in an Chenbro ES34069 case (very nice. article coming shortly).
Hello Donovan
I for one am looking forward to that article. I have been looking at the chenbro case for awhile now - it is just such an expensive build. Anyway, I am very interested to see what you end up doing. Good stuff.
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