Hello, I just installed WHS on a new DYI machine, using a Gigabye 780G based motherboard. Initially, when I set the SATA drives to operate in ACPI mode, WHS won't install properly (crashes after formatting and copying files). I set the SATA drives to IDE mode and it work from there on.
My question is: Should I set those drives back to ACPI mode to get better performance or should I leave those in IDE mode just in case I (touch wood!) I suffer a server crash and need to do a recovery?
Hi, IDE mode is easier to handle, if it comes to a server reinstall, since the drivers are integrated in Windows Home Server setup. Also the performance gap is not that much, especially since the bottleneck in a server OS is usually the network drive. Finally - changing this setting on the fly after the installation is done is not possible and would result in a necessary server reinstall.
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Proposed as answer bykariya21ModeratorSaturday, February 14, 2009 6:00 PM