Windows Server 2003 & USB 3

[tking13]

I am trying to find a USB 3.0 card for a Dell PowerEdge 2800 running Windows Server 2003 SBS (32-bit). I purchased a card, but it isn't working (worse, it blue screens when trying to install drivers). The drivers that came with the card indicate that they support XP but no indication of Server 2003, and Dell said that Windows XP drivers won't work.

Any recommendations would be most welcome. I need a way to migrate data from a SCSI-attached RAID & doing it over the network seems like a very bad idea...

Thanks in advance.

Tim King

 

[Cerb]

Can all of your data fit on one or two HDDs? Does the server have a PCI slot?

If so, instead consider an old Silicon image card, like one based off of a SIL3112 or 3114, and use SATA or eSATA. You can get them for <$15.

 

[dbcooper1]

Might have better luck with Vista drivers if available.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Unless you have 9 or 10 TB of data or the data isn't a mix of "important" stuff and stuff you could ditch, there must be several ways to plot a course here.

I could wonder why you needed SBS 2003. If it's for "bidnis," I could understand. It if ain't -- I'd think you would have "migrated" to WHS 2011 ($50 but "orphaned") or M$ Win Server Essentials 2011 or 2012 (> $300) by now.

I "moved up" (if you can call it that) from WHS v.1 (32-bit) to WHS 2011 (64-bit). But around here, there's always a "spare machine" -- ready to convert to some new usage. Instead of RAID5 -- a choice I might have made four years ago -- I opted for the "drive pool" with duplication option.

Either way, I DID construct the replacement server as a separate system, then moved the data from the "old" server to the new one via gigabit Ethernet. It might help if you have "Jumbo packets" enabled, but either way, it worked for me. The old server became a "new" workstation for some "dedicated" stuff.