release new stuff if you don't have the drivers for them. cgallery - The Vista 64Bit RAID driver installs and works for server 2008 R2 (but not for server 2008)! Go Figure...Vaughn !:-) PS - Server 2008 R2 is the released update to server 2008, just FYI....

Server 2008. Or, you could arrive at my solution - no more AMD - PERIOD! GIGABYTE SUCK's ! I bought three motherboards GIGABYTE GA-MA785GT-UD3H from Dustin AB (in Sweden) and should use it with Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 and with raid1 disks,...

Server is used to store files and share among members. - Future - Server will be the central point for our email system and maybe our website (not a crazy amount of hits to the site a day since it's not a national or international company). - Server will...

RAID 5 or RAID 10 (RAID 6 is not supported) and then use another hard disk connected to the Gigabyte SATA controller for the OS. That should work, but will you also connect a SATA DVD-ROM to that system (you have 8 SATA ports and 2 IDE ports)? There's not much...

like Windows Server 2008? The file server part is a non-issue, as long as you get a motherboard that will handle the required SAS controllers. That's the tricky part because unlike real servers, controllers are not fully tested with them, if tested at all....

seen some organizations still running Win2K and Server 2008 (or SBS2008) isn't going to like that. And no point in buying license for soon to be phased out Server 2003. And as Shadow703793 stated, knowing your budget should've been the first thing we asked....

to see what happens. Do you have any device connected to the GBB36X controller SATA ports (purple connectors)? I HAD my SATA drive connected to the PURPLE ports. I now have it connected to the YELLOW SATA ports. I just reinstalled windows. Now the drives...

build my own File Server based on Windows XP (Least common denominator). I have built many data centers in my past with SUN, HP, IBM, and other vendors. I have been lured by the prospect of using SATA II drives in RAID 5 at an affordable price with software...

the SATA drive in IDE, RAID,AHCI in the BIOS. Still nothing. I consider this is my last resort -- I am going to just try to install WinXP on my other IDE drive and see if it works then install sata driver to try and see if I can access the sata drives I have....

as much equipment already on hand to build a super-fast server for virutalization. Both processors must be water cooled. Server must run Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008. Motherboard must support at least 48GB. Background: I currrently own an HP Blackbird...