- Jun 30, 2004
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Said it enough already over the last week or two: WHS 2011 doesn't need a lot of disk space -- maybe 26 GB or even less than that. If I put a 60GB partition for it on a 320GB HDD, there's another 260GB begging to be formatted as a simple/basic volume. But do I really want a 260GB disk volume to merge with my StableBit drive pool?
So I'm trying to collect spare SATA drives in the house to use as hot-swap backup disks, and decided I could put a $55 Mushkin Chronos 60GB on the server as boot/system disk. All wonderful and fine: Acronis cloned the HDD to the Chronos perfectly.
Now I find there's a firmware revision for the Chronos, and I downloaded the installer for it. And the installer . . . DOESN'T RECOGNIZE THE CHRONOS on my WHS system, when the BIOS does, Windows does, and it's working just fine!!
What's to blame for this? Mushkin apparently created their updater program so it would only work with its SSD under a BIOS AHCI configuration!! And why is this simply stupid?!!
Because SSDs by both Intel and Patriot -- which I also use -- had firmware revisions that installed effortlessly on SSDs configured as "RAID" with their own firmware update software! That's why!!
To update the Chronos, I have to shut down my server, extract the Mushkin SSD, plug it into my workstation's Marvell controller (set up as AHCI), and run the updater on the workstation for the Mushkin -- hopefully without mishap. Then, remove the drive from the workstation and put it back in my server box.
This is absolutely dumb. Anyone want to recommend either a 60GB or 120GB SSD that wasn't produced, supported and marketed by simpletons?
So I'm trying to collect spare SATA drives in the house to use as hot-swap backup disks, and decided I could put a $55 Mushkin Chronos 60GB on the server as boot/system disk. All wonderful and fine: Acronis cloned the HDD to the Chronos perfectly.
Now I find there's a firmware revision for the Chronos, and I downloaded the installer for it. And the installer . . . DOESN'T RECOGNIZE THE CHRONOS on my WHS system, when the BIOS does, Windows does, and it's working just fine!!
What's to blame for this? Mushkin apparently created their updater program so it would only work with its SSD under a BIOS AHCI configuration!! And why is this simply stupid?!!
Because SSDs by both Intel and Patriot -- which I also use -- had firmware revisions that installed effortlessly on SSDs configured as "RAID" with their own firmware update software! That's why!!
To update the Chronos, I have to shut down my server, extract the Mushkin SSD, plug it into my workstation's Marvell controller (set up as AHCI), and run the updater on the workstation for the Mushkin -- hopefully without mishap. Then, remove the drive from the workstation and put it back in my server box.
This is absolutely dumb. Anyone want to recommend either a 60GB or 120GB SSD that wasn't produced, supported and marketed by simpletons?