Windows Home Server

cavemanoc · 26 Oct 2008 at 19:41

Or a couple of Blu-Rays at up to 100Gb a piece? You'd be amazed how quickly space gets eaten up when it's available! Especially as everything moves into Hi-Def... Even at a conservative 20Gb/hr, a single series of 24 would wipe out nearly 1/2 a Tb of space!

On a side note - Wow - I just added another 1Gb F1 drive to my box - was fiddling around on the main box trying to work out how to activate it when I had a brainstorm and followed the advice on the opening screen ("...you shouldn't be here - you might break something...") - went to the console - clicked add drive and voila - how simple is that. I really really love WHS

PhillyDee · 26 Oct 2008 at 19:51

Heh. Im always using remote desktop. Im currentl ripping DVD's to my WHS server h.264 using Handbrake. Got 200 episodes of stargate, futurama and about to start on father ted etc. I rip them from the DVD, move them to the server and then set it to encode them all. Takes a while . . . .
Suitcase, I have 350 movies, and a lot of series too. All legit. I have a DVD habit . . . Ive also got 10 Blu-Rays, but no way to rip them . . . . yet . . . .

Ive just bought an 8 port SAS/SATA controller for the princely sum of £57.11.

(RAIDCore RC5252-08 - Storage controller (RAID) - 8 Channel - SATA-300 / SAS low profile - 300 MBps - RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, JBOD, 1n, 10n - PCI Express x4. )

Someone was selling a lot off cheap, works a charm . . . Strange SATA cables, but long enough to run anywhere!

Messiah Khan · 28 Oct 2008 at 17:45

Well my Adaptec 21610SA 16 port SATA controller sucks dumps! I can't get it to work. I install it and everything is fine. I then add the drives and everything is fine. Then next time I boot it up, it freezes. Remove the drives and its ok again. Readd the drives and it freezes again. Nothing I do seems to sort it. Even updated the firmware, but no avail. Boo Adaptec, boo! Using the motherboards sata ports for now, but that only gives me 6

alle · 28 Oct 2008 at 18:00

...Ordered the trial version, 4-8 days Microsoft said. That was 3 weeks ago!!

Dr Zoidberg · 28 Oct 2008 at 21:17

alle said:
...Ordered the trial version, 4-8 days Microsoft said. That was 3 weeks ago!!

Tried to order the trial version a couple days ago and the site was down, will have to have another look but if its taking that long to turn up i will not hold my breath.

platypus · 29 Oct 2008 at 10:09

I have a crap box running ubuntu at the moment. Would it be viable to run WHS on? It looks decent enough server software for what I need.

No SATA or anything like that, but 8 USB ports (got lots of external usb hdds).

PhillyDee · 29 Oct 2008 at 10:23

Doesnt need sata and you can use external hard drives just the same. Except you cant unplug them without WHS knowing (Will copy all data off it). Once they are attatched to the 'Pool' of drives, thats it. To remove it you need to tell WHS that you removing it.

platypus · 29 Oct 2008 at 11:41

Cool cheers.

HEADRAT · 29 Oct 2008 at 12:04

I've got mine in a Antec 1200 case, I still have 3 spare SATA ports.

currently 5 x 1TB drives.

HEADRAT

pioneer2000 · 29 Oct 2008 at 12:11

Is there any reason you've got a mix of WD / Samsung ? Or just what was good deal at the time?

HEADRAT · 29 Oct 2008 at 12:12

Just what was cheapest at the time.

PhillyDee · 1 Nov 2008 at 16:07

Heh. I have 12 sata ports, with 3x500 and 2x1tb drives n it. Im like Headrat, just bought what was cheapest at the time!

wonder_lander · 9 Jan 2009 at 10:04

Just got an ML115 and got a WHS on there.

I see that there is a section for add-ins, anyone recommend any or a good home to see what's available?

whiskycycle · 9 Jan 2009 at 10:12

wonder_lander said:
I see that there is a section for add-ins, anyone recommend any or a good home to see what's available?

That'll be We Got Served that you'll be wanting to have a look at. Very active WHS community site and loads of add-ins listed.

Personally, here's what I've got running:

ASoft Autoexit
WHS Disk Management
Whiist
Duplication Info
Advanced Admin Console

That little lot does pretty much all I need it to do at the minute, although I am looking at Recorded TV manager in addition once I run wired ethernet to the Media PC instead of powerline.

wonder_lander · 9 Jan 2009 at 10:18

Cheers for the reply, will take a butchers at those and that forum

HEADRAT · 9 Jan 2009 at 11:21

My WHS just gave me kittens, it was having problems with acpitabl.dat on boot, BIOS reset seems to have solved.

My MOBO A8N-SLI seems to have a nasty habbit of throwing its raid controller on the floor ever now and again and 1 of my pool drives is on that, very tempted to just get some larger drives (1.5 TB) and just keep them on the MOBO controller.

Either that are getting a proper PCI RAID controller with lots more SATA ports.

PhillyDee said:
I have 12 sata ports

Do you have a controller card?

PhillyDee · 9 Jan 2009 at 12:23

Yup. A SAS/SATA 8 port controller card I picked up from auction site for £60 . . . (RRP was £450 . . . )

Bargain

The seller has never acquired any more though!

HEADRAT · 9 Jan 2009 at 12:41

Indeed it was, lucky fella

wonder_lander · 9 Jan 2009 at 12:43

Headrat - I see that your disk configuration has changed since the begining of this thread. Can you explain how you managed the upgrade?

gizmoy2k · 9 Jan 2009 at 12:58

pioneer2000 said:
Is there any reason you've got a mix of WD / Samsung ? Or just what was good deal at the time?

You should also never buy 4/5 hdds of the same model, from same place/time,
Say u buy 5tb of Samsung and you get a faulty batch! in a years time thats a lot of data loss, Spread the manufacturer and place of purchase while trying to find a good price