Please post your windows home server hard drive temps

easyrider · 31 May 2010 at 22:22

Tomsk said:
No screen grab, but temps are currently 29-32C.
10 HDs
Server is idle.
Room temp 25C.

Screen grab!!!!

easyrider · 1 Jun 2010 at 00:46

SiD the Turtle said:
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

easyrider · 2 Jun 2010 at 00:17

Tomsk said:
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?

easyrider · 3 Jun 2010 at 23:08

Tomsk said:
Coolermaster Elite 335 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-160-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29

More info about my case (with ghetto cooling solution) - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15004243&postcount=11

what PSU?

easyrider · 16 Aug 2010 at 02:42

I have moved my server into the stable block. should have done this months ago tbh.

Now with the warm weather they are around 25-28c at night time.

When it gets colder what are the implications of this?

Can drives drop in temps to much?

Cheers

easyrider · 17 Aug 2010 at 12:30

I have read that the low 20's are no good for drives and that 30-35 c is the key temp

easyrider · 17 Aug 2010 at 14:43

ubersonic said:
TYVM been wondering how to do this for ages

easyrider · 18 Dec 2010 at 22:32

easyrider · 20 Dec 2010 at 21:47

wonko said:
You need to sort out your disk management wireframe, easyrider

I know

I will do this when I build the new server using a CM stacker

easyrider · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:33

Finally got around to finishing the grid

easyrider · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:34

wonko said:
You need to sort out your disk management wireframe, easyrider

what are the unmanaged disks mate?

easyrider · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:47

wonko said:
The disks form a 3TB spanned volume that I use to backup various video files to. They are removable using an icydock 5-bay enclosure, which makes it quicker to do a backup than over the network to another pc.

How do I set that up?

easyrider · 15 Jan 2011 at 20:53

wonko said:
Hi easyrider,

I see you've been adding to your 2TB disk collection I'm going to need some more for my main desktop very soon (where I keep a local backup of most of the WHS stuff).

Anyway, to set up a spanned volume:

RDP into your WHS box, go to disk management
Initialise the empty/unmanaged disks as dynamic
Create a new volume by right-clicking in unallocated space and select a spanned volume across the disks you want.
Enjoy!

You can extend a spanned volume, but can't remove an individual disk from the set without losing the data on the volume. Spanned volumes also aren't fault tolerant, so if one disk of the set dies then the whole volume is lost.

If you move a spanned set of disks around between PCs they will show up as 'foreign' in disk management, and you have to 'import foreign disks' to access the data. (That got me a bit nervous the first time I saw it!)

Microsoft's version of some of the above is at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784653(WS.10).aspx

TBH I'd prefer not to use spanned disks like this, but have never found a backup program that quite does what I want. This approach at least lets me do a file hashing backup/verify fairly quickly and without an additional PC left on for no other reason.

Usual caveats about doing things in WHS outside of the console also apply

Thanks

easyrider · 21 Feb 2011 at 20:40