I have just done my 1st build of WHS. I am recycling my old nforce2 shuttle sff. I am booting from an IDE drive connected to the motherboard. I have added a silicon image sata controller and two 750Gb sata drives.
I noticed that the policy for all drives was optimis(z)e for performance with write caching on. Is this recommended for WHS without battery backup (UPS)?
For the moment I have turned off the write caching. I could do this on the IDE drive using device manager. I had to install silicon image's SataRaid tool to turn off the caching on the sata drives. They are not running in raid mode nor do I have the raid bios installed on the sata controller.
Regards
Paul