Windows Home Server Questions?

Your only real option is to reinstall using a retail version, this will keep your data on the pool.. It works but I've never had much luck with it as mine is self built.
 
Anyone using utorrent succesfully? I'm having a few issues.

Firstly, 'Auto-loading torrents from directory' doesn't seem to work.

Secondly I've set my folders to '\\server\Downloads' and '\\server\Downloads\torrents\' respectively - I downloaded mint linux torrent last night and whilst the torrent started under supervision, it appears to have finished and deleted whilst not being supervised :p.

Am I just unlucky this one time or have I missed something obvious?
 
I had different problems resulting me in screaming at my isp for their lousy connection......turns out it was utorrent! God knows why, but once i'd deleted whatever was in the active list the problems went away.
 
Is there a technology or software that would allow one to switch off there sata hdds when not in use?

Im just worried that having many hdds that remain idle are just gonna soak up the electricity bill if I go whs/server route ?

Or am I just being silly ;)
 
You can tell WHS in the power options in control panel to turn off the hard-drives after x minutes. Only issue I came across with this is a delay when the HDD spins back up.
 
Qu3 said:
You can tell WHS in the power options in control panel to turn off the hard-drives after x minutes. Only issue I came across with this is a delay when the HDD spins back up.
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I presume that doesn't spin them down if they're being used/accessed/written too? You never know with Windows :p.
 
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I presume that doesn't spin them down if they're being used/accessed/written too? You never know with Windows :p.
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No, they turn off after being idle for however long you specify.

Anyone using utorrent succesfully? I'm having a few issues.

Firstly, 'Auto-loading torrents from directory' doesn't seem to work.

Secondly I've set my folders to '\\server\Downloads' and '\\server\Downloads\torrents\' respectively - I downloaded mint linux torrent last night and whilst the torrent started under supervision, it appears to have finished and deleted whilst not being supervised .

Am I just unlucky this one time or have I missed something obvious?
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If you restart utorrent does it load the torrents? If so I think it might be a bug. Just saw something on google reader about it. Reinstalling and deleting utorrent in app data folder may fix it apparently..
 
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Qu3 said:
You can tell WHS in the power options in control panel to turn off the hard-drives after x minutes. Only issue I came across with this is a delay when the HDD spins back up.
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thx for the answer, thats a useful feature I guess its the same feature already in vista/7 in power options>hdd>turn off hdd after x amount of minutes?

Im hoping in whs you can adjust the individual hdds power settings since id idealy like to have one always on as the download drive the rest once idle can switch off or sleep, do you think thats possible?

I know under vista/xp/7 u have no control so if one goes to sleep your entire pc goes to deep hibernation switching off your system and network and your downloads which aint nice...
 
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Yeah its the same options as in XP/Vista/7 etc.

I don't think you can without some special software. Even then you cannot control which drive the WHS uses to store data. I think Since PP2 WHS fills the HDD one by one so this is sort of implemented already.

If not you could always remove a drive from the pool and sync downloaded files to the WHS at certain times.
 
Bear in mind that if you use 'folder duplication' you are likely to be spanning/using ALL disks in your array which may result in the, not spinning down.
FWIW i can't see the point in this tbh. The savings are surely going to be micro-minimal, with possibly more issues when waking up certain disks in an array.
Just a thought.
 
hmm was not aware of that, I really wanted full control of my hdds and whats going on and off them and to keep them organised.

The spin down/energy saving would have been great if it could have been done per hdd, think ill just build a win7 server with green/eco drives so can use it with any software/have some control over my hdds at least.
 
Qu3 said:
....Even then you cannot control which drive the WHS uses to store data. I think Since PP2 WHS fills the HDD one by one so this is sort of implemented already
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Is there any way to turn this off? My WHS is a VM with the underlying storage on a ZFS mirror. If WHS starts duplicating files, because it assumes it's sitting on unreliable drives, then I'm going to end up with four copies of everything.

I realise this isn't a common scenario but a virtual WHS is a great fit for my requirements (removes the need for another planet warmer).

-Pete
 
WHS will only duplicate folders that you tell it to. As far as I know when a drive is failing it will not auto remove all the data on that drive. I'll have to look that up.
It may duplicate backups though.

You can't turn this off but if WHS doesn't auto dupe data then you shouldn't have the problem.

I'd advise asking this over at WGS your not the only one running WHS in a VM :P
 
Flippin tree huggers! :rolleyes: :D

If WHS starts duplicating files, because it assumes it's sitting on unreliable drives, then I'm going to end up with four copies of everything.
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Folder duplication is all down to a /switch mate. You either select it or not for the share you create on your WHS. Obviously if you don't select it, you have no data redundancy. Its totally the choice of the end user whether to use it or not.
 
It does not auto remove a failing drive. Trust me. Ive had a couple of arrays go pear shaped recently (Single JBOD drives) ans the server goes nuts!
 
JBOD isn't really true raid so no intelligent data moving will happen. WHS simply lets you choose whether to have it duplicate a share onto a separate drive in the JBOD array. You don't get to choose the drive as they are all one dynamic volume. Internally it will copy it to a separate disk though in case of failure.
 
Yes, I know ;) thats why. all 4 drives are jbod drives.

But my controller card chucked one of my arrays, so windows assumed it was a dodgy disk and just went nuts. File system errors, machine running slow, lost every single backup, took a while to get it running again. It might be fault tolerant, but a basic user with minimal computer knowledge might not be able to cope (And lets admit, thats who its aimed at).
 
Philly are/was you using a raid controller card with WHS or plain ole windows. IIRC WHS doesn't like any kind of hardware raid controller, totally favouring its own way (JBOD with data duplication) and kicking up a fuss whilst its at it.
That said, are we wandering off topic slightly, lol? ;)

Back on topic to the OP, you wanted to spin down disk to save power/money which i still maintain will make almost zero impact on your bills. But if i'm understanding you correctly, you're running WHS on a VM server, have you thought about the implications of spinning down hdds that clearly aren't just serving WHS?
Or have i got the wrong end of the stick here? which is entirely possible :rolleyes:
 
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