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More fans? You need to remove the heat as quicky as possible. Even changing the cooling config may help.
Pics of case.
Pics of case.
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I think its because the case is crap, and I'm using the retail intel hsf, and its in a wardrobe, but anyway. No live pics of case but its one of those generic ocuk value cases, bought for ~£15. Nowhere else I can stick fans!
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I've just installed WHS 2011, previously using WHS v1. How do I migrate my data over? I've installed onto a 2Tb drive that now has 2 partitions, C and D. I've also plugged in all my other HDDs that are full of data. The HDDs all show up on the Server as full drives. However, when I double click on them it says they're empty.
Also, when I explore the old system disk (WHS v1) it shows all the server folders from before and actually states that the folders are over 8Tb in size, which is correct when they were all pooled previously, but is obviously impossible now for this one 2TB drive.
Help!
Also, when I explore the old system disk (WHS v1) it shows all the server folders from before and actually states that the folders are over 8Tb in size, which is correct when they were all pooled previously, but is obviously impossible now for this one 2TB drive.
Help!
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You should have copied your data off to an external storage device, formatted all the drives and performed an install of WHS2011 and then copied your data back on. There is no migration path between WHS1 and WHS2011. WHS2011 doesn't understand drivepooling, which may be why you're struggling to see your existing data.
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The files should be in hidden \DE folders off the root of each disk (including the system disk). Go into explorer, tools, folder options, view and click on the show hidden files and folders option. It's possible that you will also need to set permissions to take ownership of the files to get access to them.
It should then just be a case of copying them to wherever you want to put them, following any rules WHS2011 might have about whether you need to only copy to the network path name. If you had folder duplication turned on, then I'd expect there to be two copies of those files on different disks.
Good luck!
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Wonko - jackpot! You just saved me a lot of hassle 
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Good stuff
Of course the quicker answer would have been "just copy the data over from a backup."
Of course the quicker answer would have been "just copy the data over from a backup."
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It's 10Tb of data, I haven't got that much spare ;-p
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I've got about the same volume of data here, so know the problem.
Suppose it comes down to how much you'd kick yourself for not spending £300 on backup disks after a disk crash, or you inadvertently delete the wrong folder, or your house has been burgled.
Maybe I'm just getting old and don't want to feel like I'm living life on the edge any more!
Suppose it comes down to how much you'd kick yourself for not spending £300 on backup disks after a disk crash, or you inadvertently delete the wrong folder, or your house has been burgled.
Maybe I'm just getting old and don't want to feel like I'm living life on the edge any more!
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I've got the important stuff backed up on a few other drives - Photos, home movies, documents etc. I've also got a full backup of music as that would be a bitch to rip again. The majority of my data is TV, DVD and Bluray rips that would be a pain to rerip, but not worth the additional expense for a backup. Thankfully this migration pain doesn't happen too often
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Hi Guys,
I'm looking for some advice on which version of WHS would be best for me.
My current set up involves 2 v1 drobo’s (one with 4x 2Tb and one with 4x1.5Tb) through a droboshare. These are used to store most of my DVD/Bluray?music collection. I’ve recently found that the droboshare does not fully support gigabit LAN and is desperately slow to copy anything to or stream from. Hence the reason they only have some of my collection on it I’m fed up spending all day ripping my DVD’s only to have to leave the pc on all night while it copies them to the drobos.
We currently have no backup solution and so it is a complete reinstall if anything goes wrong. This last piece of info did not impress the wife when her laptop hard disk threw a wobbler the other week!!
I’m probably going with an i3 2100 processor and 4Gb ram, for a motherboard pretty much anything really as long as it’s got on board graphics and plenty of sata ports and room for expansion cards.
Now the crunch question WHSv1 or 2011… I like the idea of drive extender and just duplicating the folders I need (i.e. not all the media just photos and docs). What advantages would 2011 bring other than support for >2Tb drives?
I have had a copy of WHSv1 sat at home for a while now waiting for the network cabling to be installed up to the loft but 2011 is so cheap at the moment I’m wondering if there would be any advantage assuming I can get over the lack of drive extender and bearing in mind I have the 2 soon to be redundant drobos which could be connected up via USB for back up of the server….provided they recognised by WHS.
My head hurts!!!
Any tips/hints/opinions are more than welcome
Edd
I'm looking for some advice on which version of WHS would be best for me.
My current set up involves 2 v1 drobo’s (one with 4x 2Tb and one with 4x1.5Tb) through a droboshare. These are used to store most of my DVD/Bluray?music collection. I’ve recently found that the droboshare does not fully support gigabit LAN and is desperately slow to copy anything to or stream from. Hence the reason they only have some of my collection on it I’m fed up spending all day ripping my DVD’s only to have to leave the pc on all night while it copies them to the drobos.
We currently have no backup solution and so it is a complete reinstall if anything goes wrong. This last piece of info did not impress the wife when her laptop hard disk threw a wobbler the other week!!
I’m probably going with an i3 2100 processor and 4Gb ram, for a motherboard pretty much anything really as long as it’s got on board graphics and plenty of sata ports and room for expansion cards.
Now the crunch question WHSv1 or 2011… I like the idea of drive extender and just duplicating the folders I need (i.e. not all the media just photos and docs). What advantages would 2011 bring other than support for >2Tb drives?
I have had a copy of WHSv1 sat at home for a while now waiting for the network cabling to be installed up to the loft but 2011 is so cheap at the moment I’m wondering if there would be any advantage assuming I can get over the lack of drive extender and bearing in mind I have the 2 soon to be redundant drobos which could be connected up via USB for back up of the server….provided they recognised by WHS.
My head hurts!!!
Any tips/hints/opinions are more than welcome
Edd
Any hardware afficianados able to help me out with an "issue".
I have a (brand new) wd hdd, 7,200rpm, in my whs that I use for ripping discs too. This is connected to a pci sata expansion card. I then rdp in and copy across to my share pool. If the files are small its as you'd expect, pretty instant. But large files take ages, and by ages I mean over an hour.
Eg I ripped Seven from Bluray last night, and came out with an 8GB file. It took 75 minutes all told. Is it because its on the expansion card? Or could something else be amiss? All drives show as healthy.
There are loads of advantages in WHSv2011. I'd be tempted to say that if you've never experienced WHSv1 with DE, than just go for 2011.
I won't be upgrading because for me at the moment, v1 with DE is the best solution.
I have a (brand new) wd hdd, 7,200rpm, in my whs that I use for ripping discs too. This is connected to a pci sata expansion card. I then rdp in and copy across to my share pool. If the files are small its as you'd expect, pretty instant. But large files take ages, and by ages I mean over an hour.
Eg I ripped Seven from Bluray last night, and came out with an 8GB file. It took 75 minutes all told. Is it because its on the expansion card? Or could something else be amiss? All drives show as healthy.
There are loads of advantages in WHSv2011. I'd be tempted to say that if you've never experienced WHSv1 with DE, than just go for 2011.
I won't be upgrading because for me at the moment, v1 with DE is the best solution.
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That's really odd - I've got a couple of drives on an internal Sata 3 (Asus U3S6 USB3.0 & SATA 6Gbps PCI-Express Controller Card) and so far haven't had any problems? I don't suppose your pci bus could be saturated by something else could it? Have you tried using HDTach or similar on the drive prior to adding it to DE to see whether the problem lies with the controler?
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Just to add a nugget of info on this, WHS 2011 lets you move the built in shared folders to any drive on the server, and individually. You can also creat your own custom shares and just ignore the built in ones.
I have just migrated from WHS v1 , loving 2011 so far.
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Sucks if a share is over 2TB
As for creating new shares you can do this on V1
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