Server for me and idea for a desk

[Airbozo]

Nice looking project. I like the idea of covering the cables and providing airflow for your HAF case.

One idea for the server is to put the drives in a separate enclosure. This may require a different controller card that provides an external connection or some long cables...

BTW: WHS does NOT support raid. I spent months trying to get it to work including injecting the drivers right into the install disk. Never got it to work so I just let WHS manage the drives. I have not tried it yet, but my buddy is running WHS2 and is using raid since drive extender has been removed from the newer version.

[Fuganater]

Where can I get WHS with Drive Extender?

[Airbozo]

Where can I get WHS with Drive Extender?

The first version of WHS comes with Drive extender. The second version does not and will not.

[Fuganater]

Newegg only sells it with PP3...

[Airbozo]

PP3?

BTW: I am a MS Technet subscriber and that is how I got WHS. Not sure if you can buy/find the first version any more. I will check with our distributors.

[Fuganater]

Power Pack 3.

I used to have MSDN through Dell... thats before they fired all of us

But I found it with PP1 on Buy.com and Amazon.

[NightrainSrt4]

Powerpacks were just the big batches of updates, no? I didn't read the whole thread to figure out why'd you want it without the updates. Iirc there were some pretty big fixes in the updates.

EDIT: All the versions of WHS V1 have Drive Extender, regardless which power pack it has. WHS V2 doesn't have Drive Extender and is based off Server 2k8 instead of 2k3.

[Fuganater]

Ahh that makes sense now. So I just need to make sure it is V1... hmm.. wonder what the one on Newegg is...

[Airbozo]

BTW: Version 1 is 32 bit, version 2 is 64 bit.

_supposedly_ Version2 supports raid controllers, but I have not tested it yet. Lots of people are upset that MS took drive extender out of version 2.

[Fuganater]

Ya that's why I want V1. I thought it had to do with the Power Packs.