***The Official Windows Home Server 2011 Thread***

Essexraptor said:
No.... leave the drive letters for pooled drives ...,... as is. It's useful for when you want to remove a drive from the pool. Apart from that ... no real purpose or reason to do so :)
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The only time I have found it useful is when the drive to be removed had CRC errors and so Drive Pool couldn't copy the data to another drive in the pool before removing. In this case having the letter was required so you can see the hidden folder Drive Pool stores the files in and move the files manually.

If someone is happy with the process of removing the drive letter, I see no reason why not. In the end if there is an issue they can just add it back again and it makes the whole thing so much tidier. If you add unformatted drives to the pool, DP just quick formats them and adds them without a drive letter assigned anyway. It can be added back via Computer Management -> Disk Management if someone prefers to have the letters.

Of course, you could just mount the drives on a set of folders on your D: drive (assuming you still have the D: from the original install) and then you can access the files in the hidden folders if you wish and the letters would not be visible in Windows file explorer.

RB
 
Ok I thought it was too good to be true. WHS dashboard has two problems. Alerts aren't working (have restarted the WHS Health Service), and.....DrivePool has been marked as suspect. The data is all there and useable, but..I can't see the damned thing in Dashboard.

Meh.
 
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so you removed the drive letters? :(

Drivepool needs to know the drive letters... simply so it can dynamical assign it's own letter. Remove that data and ...... it no longer shows
 
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Any ideas how I install the connector software without a webbrowser? I get a 404 error when navigating to http://server/connect.

And a reboot fixed it. I have to say other than the install I'm not impressed so far!
 
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platypus said:
Ok rebooting the server and reinstalling DrivePool has fixed the issue.



Yeah, thought I'd try it whilst my server is open and accessible and I have a 2TB disk from work to back stuff up. I won't do it again :p.
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Yup.... just note my edit above :)

You can test it yourself... by removing the smallest drive, with the least amount of data on it, from the pool. Once removed the drive letters will reshuffle downwards.

Did it myself with a 1TB drive that I had data on previous to adding to the server and could not see the data. It was not important stuff. So I removed the drive from the pool... Shifted the data using a dock then replaced and re added to the pool.

It was at this time that I noticed the drive letter assignment changing. Drivebender is very similiar in the way it works... and the one thing I picked up from that is that it actually works better if you add the drives one at a time to the server and build the pool gradually instead of one big hit :)
 
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My server has been up and running largely without issue now for a few weeks. Its chugging away under the stairs nicely.

I guess the only issue I might have is in the future with x amount of Windows updates installed and so on, I might start to run out of diskspace on my system partition. Can I clone the ssd to a larger one without issue? Not sure I can limit usage of my c: drive any more as there isn't anything but WHS/XBMC on it!
 
Just moved from V1 to WHS2011, pretty painless but i had the space to move, Using drivebender and have to say it was pretty easy to setup too.

I have an NL36 and the boot time is definitely quicker and its much quicker to connect and allow you to access the files

WHS may be being canned but its not going anywhere until 2015 at least. There is no way home usere will fork out $399 for Server 2012

Looks like the future may be in Amahi, freenas and the like
 
I had a little vexing issue on install last evening.
Turns out when you chnage you location and language settings innthe initial setup, not all screens work in your new setting.
Meaning passwords which contain symbols might get the symbols of the US keyboard layout, rather than the UK layout.
Then on reboot after updates or remote connection, I was unable to actually login.

Eventually figured out why it claimed my password was wrong.
 
One question which might be fairly obvious. If i'm on another computer (not on my home network)
I can log into my server remotely and it shows like this, where i can access my files/make changes etc.

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However is there anyway i can effectively remote access onto the server (as i would from home) so i can access programs running on it? I'm sure there will be but i've never really done anything like this before.

EDIT: Not a clue what that picture is of as the folder image, certainly not of anyone i know!

EDIT2: The other thing thats odd is it only shows about 800 songs whereas i have many thousand. Any idea how it reads this?
 
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Drive pooling looks sort of interesting but I will wait to see how that pans out.

Making my home server a HTPC is not what I would want from a server. Doing that would be making it a HTPC with shared storage surely.

Shiney, shiney, new toy to play with..... ok fair point but not as a replacement for my WHS 2011.

I would imagine WHS 2011 will stay with me for a while yet. Server 2012 Essentials is too much (both power and financially) for a home server for my requirements. Windows 8 I will wait to see if MS are still following the love-it/Lemon cycle before commiting. Win7 does me for home and I have no wish to have Metro in my life.

RB
 
I must have been lucky, the only real issue I ever had with Vista 64 bit was a printer driver, thought it was leaps and bounds better than XP overall, however always suprised at the Venom directed towards it.
 
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