Windows Home Server

wonder_lander said:
I went for the HP ML115 G5 server which has a dedicated thread on the server forum.

My spec is :

Got the quad core 2.1 Opteron processor
swapped the 512mb for 2 x 2GB of Crucial stuff
added 2 x 500GB spinpoint F1's
and of course WHS

Server was about £160, Ram £40, Samsung Drives (£85 for the 2) and WHS (£80)
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Slightly overkill for that I need I think :p Plus I presume it's pretty power hungry?
 
I run WHS on an HP ML110 (P4 3Ghz, 4GB RAM, 1 x 1TB Spinpoint, 1 x maxtor 250GB, GB ethernet).

Runs fine, but the Promise SATA controller lets it down on data transfer a little.

Would be lost without it now:)
 
No idea. If it works with Server 2003 it will work with WHS.

I have a lsight annoyance. Ive just bought a Basic Laserjet printer and im using WHS as a print server. Except It keeps picking up the Shared server on my main PC and setting that as a default printer (Instead of the acytual printeR) . Any ideas how to stop automatic printer detection?
 
PhillyDee said:
No idea. If it works with Server 2003 it will work with WHS.

I have a lsight annoyance. Ive just bought a Basic Laserjet printer and im using WHS as a print server. Except It keeps picking up the Shared server on my main PC and setting that as a default printer (Instead of the acytual printeR) . Any ideas how to stop automatic printer detection?
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Any use? http://wegotserved.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Sharing_a_Printer_on_your_WHS

Can't really work out from your post what it is doing wrong / or right!
 
I was considering a NAS but I stumbled in here and a WHS sounds liek it'll fit my requirements much better.

I have a spare PC that I could use.Any idea what the power consumption of the following would be?

MSI NEO2 Platinum
AMD Opteron 144
2GB RAM
4X 250HDD's
ATI 9800SE AIW gfx Card
350W Antec PSU
2x 80mm fans.

To save power it would probably make sense to get rid of the drives and get a couple of 1TB ones and underclock the CPU? How could I get the data from the existing drives onto the WHS if I replace them with 1TB ones?

Could I remove the graphics card as I've read these servers don't need them?
 
DoubleCheese said:
I was considering a NAS but I stumbled in here and a WHS sounds liek it'll fit my requirements much better.

I have a spare PC that I could use.Any idea what the power consumption of the following would be?

MSI NEO2 Platinum
AMD Opteron 144
2GB RAM
4X 250HDD's
ATI 9800SE AIW gfx Card
350W Antec PSU
2x 80mm fans.

To save power it would probably make sense to get rid of the drives and get a couple of 1TB ones and underclock the CPU? How could I get the data from the existing drives onto the WHS if I replace them with 1TB ones?

Could I remove the graphics card as I've read these servers don't need them?
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My views,

Even though you probably won't connect it up to a monitor, unless your Motherboard has a built in GFX you can't remove the gfx card from the system totally. Two reason, 1) it's unlikely you BIOS will post without a gfx card in, and 2) even though you won't connect to a monitor, you'll need to access the server from another PC (e.g. via remote desktop) to set it all up, organise etc so the only way that will work is if there is a gfx to render the image, even if it doesn't display to it's own monitor.

As for saving power, i'm just doing the same exercise. You might want to drop the 9800 and move to something like the ATI3450 like I have, as that is a lower power card.

Swapping to less drives would help, but not considerably, as unless the drives are spinning they don't' take much power.

As for underclocking, my understanding is that it won't reduce the power consumption of the chip, but not 100% on that one.

As for getting the data onto the 1tb drive if you went down that path. Easiest is probably put 1TB in server, then put the 250's in your other pc and copy the data from them onto the server.

Hope that helps

Taff
 
Just started setting up my WHS on my old iDEQ SFF PC. Just wondering, how do you guys manage backups from Laptops? They dont get left in standby mode, so cant be woke up in the early hours to backup like my PCs can be...
 
My laptops are set to sleep on pressing the power button or closing the lids. WHS is happy to wake them from this state.

If you are shutting them down then I would do a full backup of them and then just periodically force a backup while the machine is running
 
Can you run backups while using the PC or does it suspend it while its in use? If you can use it and backup at the same time can I set specific machines to backup between like 3pm and 11pm, which is likely when they will be on?

Oh, and will it wake an XP laptop from hibernation to run the backup?
 
Anyone had any experience with the Tranquil barebones or SQA-5H machines?

Quite close to pushing the button on one, but concerned about how well the Atom 330 performs.

Would be using it with WHS with a few add ins - including WebGuide for streaming etc.
 
I just got the tranquil bbs2 and its great :) Still playing around with it, but am going to do a proper test of it on sunday (got work all day saturday)
 
Ok, any1 got any help I can not understand this.

I have 2 1TB samsung hard drives atm in my WHS.
The server storage tab shows this:


Non-Storage Hard drive:

Samsung .... 931GB ... Status Not added

Storage Hard drive:
Samsung ... 931GB ... Status Healthy


Clicking on the storage HDD shows 911GB free as 20Gb used for the system drive.

This means I have a completely empty 931GB HDD not in the storage pool and doing nothing as far as I can see. Is there any reason for this? Do i simply add this to the storage.

The reason I ask is i have seen a lot of screen shots with people having a drive as a non storage drive
 
Yep, add this drive to the storage pool by right clicking.
You will lose ALL the data currently on the disk.

I have a USB drive as non-storage, but thats just a backup image of certain directories and its stored in my (little) safe.
 
I see, i see Headrat had a drive not in the storage pool either so was a bit concerned as some people were telling me not to add it which just did not make any sense to me.

Thanks
 
Bry said:
I just got the tranquil bbs2 and its great :) Still playing around with it, but am going to do a proper test of it on sunday (got work all day saturday)
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Bry, which drive config did you go for - bit confused with the 3 x RAID with 1 x eSata or 4 x RAID with the unit having 5 bays :confused:

I'm probably being a bit thick, but it's Friday! :p
 
PaulB said:
Bry, which drive config did you go for - bit confused with the 3 x RAID with 1 x eSata or 4 x RAID with the unit having 5 bays :confused:

I'm probably being a bit thick, but it's Friday! :p
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Its got 5 drive bays plus 1 e-sata port.

The first drive bay (furthest right) is the system drive and no matter what is not raid enabled.

If you specify 4x raid then the other 4 internal hdds are in the raid and the external sata is not.

If you specify 3*raid with 1 esata then only 3 of the 5 internal hdds are able to be raided with the external sata port.

Tbh if you are running WHS I wouldn't worry too much as its not wise to raid whs (kinda defeats the point.)
If you are going to run linux and use raid 5 then probably best to go with the 4x option. Unless you specifically want to add an external sata drive into the raid array.
 
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