Please post your windows home server hard drive temps
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I've been meaning to try out the disk management add-in. Here you go...
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No screen grab, but temps are currently 29-32C.
10 HDs
Server is idle.
Room temp 25C.
10 HDs
Server is idle.
Room temp 25C.
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Here we go:
Cooled by a pair of 12cm fans.
P.S. Gotta love my WHS' idea of hard drive balancing!
Cooled by a pair of 12cm fans.
P.S. Gotta love my WHS' idea of hard drive balancing!
Here we go:
Cooled by a pair of 12cm fans.
P.S. Gotta love my WHS' idea of hard drive balancing!
Just force it.
Turn off duplication on big share then turn on
Go to work
Soldato
Here are mine. Server is located in the garage so has very good airflow.
Slight tangent on this thread, but I've got a question for wonder_lander. You say your server is in the garage. Is the garage sealed from humidity/etc? Or just a normal garage? I'd love to put my servers in the garage but I'm worried about the safety of the equipment in terms of humidity and temperature in terms of getting too cold say in winter?
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I've ran 2 PC's 24/7 for the last 3 years in there with no issue. It's just a normal garage attached to the side of the house.
I I where to shut them down in the extreme cold then I think condensation may be an issue. As they are continually running I think it keeps the unit temperature fine.
Over this last winter I've had a temp sensor in the garage and despite the drops in the outside temp the ambient temp in the garage has always remained above 0.
I hear of people also running their machines in the loft of their house and I would guess that gets hotter / colder than my garage!
I I where to shut them down in the extreme cold then I think condensation may be an issue. As they are continually running I think it keeps the unit temperature fine.
Over this last winter I've had a temp sensor in the garage and despite the drops in the outside temp the ambient temp in the garage has always remained above 0.
I hear of people also running their machines in the loft of their house and I would guess that gets hotter / colder than my garage!
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Bloody hell that's a lot of drives. Do you buy them new or through the MM or similar?
Notice you've got a WD 'EARS' drive in there too. What method did you use to work around the sector size increase? I went for the jumper option in the end.
Notice you've got a WD 'EARS' drive in there too. What method did you use to work around the sector size increase? I went for the jumper option in the end.
Theres an issue with EARS drives and WHS? Ive got one on my desk im currently filling with stuff to move to my WHS before it becomes part of the pool. whats the issue?
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Got 2x 120mm fans on them
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Basically the most modern HDDs are switching from a 512byte sector size to a 4KB sector size. This would be fine except that XP doesn't support this standard and WHS is based on Server 2003 and by extension XP.
This can mean, under XP, extremely slow writes and possible data corruption.
There are two ways around this, firstly formatting the drive using certain tools (I didn't go for this option as I wasn't confident of the impact on WHS) or setting a jumper on the HDD before install.
More info here: http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php?/topic/11681-wd-green-2tb-drives-should-we-use-wd-align/
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Well, pron does take up a lot of space....
The drives are either 'new' (2 of the 1TB were pulled from a WD NAS, but they've been replaced with the 2TB drives now) or from OcUK B-grade stock.
I didn't know about the 'EARS' problem. That would expalin the erratic performance I've been getting from my server, which I just thought was the data being balanced.
I've read most of that WGS thread and I'll have to take my server 'offline' for a while as I sort it out.
Well, pron does take up a lot of space....
The drives are either 'new' (2 of the 1TB were pulled from a WD NAS, but they've been replaced with the 2TB drives now) or from OcUK B-grade stock.
I didn't know about the 'EARS' problem. That would expalin the erratic performance I've been getting from my server, which I just thought was the data being balanced.
I've read most of that WGS thread and I'll have to take my server 'offline' for a while as I sort it out.
You have enough space to remove the EARS... allign then re-add to the pool
Also whats the deal with the B grade drives?
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That's what my server is doing now - removing the drives - while I'm at work.
Most of the B-Grade drives that OcUK have are only a few quid less than a new one, but occasionally they have a bargain.
None of my B-grade drives have ever failed. I actually have a B-grade external USB Maxtor as a secondary backup.