Windows Home Server

wonder_lander said:
Headrat - I see that your disk configuration has changed since the begining of this thread. Can you explain how you managed the upgrade?
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Yup, just a bit of data shuffling, one of the nice features of WHS is that as long as you have enough space you can just "remove" a disc from the pool.

I bought a couple of 1TB discs, copied some data off of my WHS until I had enough space to "remove" the other discs from the pool, I then pulled the smaller discs and replaced it with the larger 1 TB devices.
 
Blimming heck. Im considering a WHS as a silent download box and store for backups, but was thinking a Tranquil PC (single 1TB drive) and some added USB storage. Not in the same leuge as you HDD horders!
 
gizmoy2k said:
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
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Yeah, after aquiring 2 1tb samsungs and the thread on here I got a WD 1tb hard drive too. You never know!
 
Anyone got one of the HP SmartMedia home servers? For £300-ish (inc. WHS license), they look like very good value - especially with the number of SATA and eSATA connections!
 
I have the icybox 4220 with 2x1tb
I decided to go this route rater than have another pc (would make 5) running in the house. The icybox is a low power, easy to use solution, although you are limited to 2 hdds

I did look at the HP but as i said decided against another pc
 
Anyone else have any problems when you have x amount of exactly the same drives ona WHS box and you can't properly identify which to remove with really farting around? There must be an easier way than this? Or should i start buying a different brand everytime :p?
 
HEADRAT said:
Yup, just a bit of data shuffling, one of the nice features of WHS is that as long as you have enough space you can just "remove" a disc from the pool.

I bought a couple of 1TB discs, copied some data off of my WHS until I had enough space to "remove" the other discs from the pool, I then pulled the smaller discs and replaced it with the larger 1 TB devices.
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So can it even manage that with the OS drive?
 
gizmoy2k said:
I have the icybox 4220 with 2x1tb
I decided to go this route rater than have another pc (would make 5) running in the house. The icybox is a low power, easy to use solution, although you are limited to 2 hdds

I did look at the HP but as i said decided against another pc
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That's the decision I took, and I brought the Icybox at the beginning of the month. I'm now wondering if I made the right decision! A proper machine with a full OS is just so much more configurable. Take the following example:

I wanted to download the Windows 7 Beta from MSDN on Wednesday. In order to do this I had to leave my old fileserver on (the machine the Icybox should replace) because there's no way of doing the same thing with the Icybox. It has BitTorrent support, but if I want to do it remotely I'd have to port-forward 80 to the web interface through my router, which I'm not overly comfortable doing. Whilst it's useful to have the device sharing all my files over the network (I have both a PC and a laptop), I am wondering if I should have just built myself a low budget low powered machine and put WHS/Server 2003 on it. Ho hum.
 
My WHS it my download box, it starts the USENET client up at 00:00 and closes it at 10:00 to ensure I don't get hit with the Virgin Media cap.
 
Just received the 120 eval version of this and going to put it on my old PC tomorrow, was going to put the operating system on a 36gb raptor and then have a 500gb and 1TB drive in there as well, but from what I've been reading above, because of the way WHS server organsies files I won't be able to specify what drive the operating system stays on, or have I missed a point.

Also any install tips appreciated.

Cheers

Taff
 
Tunney said:
Anyone got one of the HP SmartMedia home servers? For £300-ish (inc. WHS license), they look like very good value - especially with the number of SATA and eSATA connections!
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Yep,

I have the ex475, upgraded the cpu and mem, and its running sweet, Nice and quiet and uses a lot less electricity compaired to the xeon 3210 with 4 1tb drives in it i was running previously lol.

Nice bit of kit. Itunes server built in is quite nice as well. I also purchased Avast home server which also gives you 10 licenses for avast pro and perfectdisk 2008 which is also very good.
 
Supertaff said:
Just received the 120 eval version of this and going to put it on my old PC tomorrow, was going to put the operating system on a 36gb raptor and then have a 500gb and 1TB drive in there as well, but from what I've been reading above, because of the way WHS server organsies files I won't be able to specify what drive the operating system stays on, or have I missed a point.

Also any install tips appreciated.

Cheers

Taff
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Because of the issues I had with my install I'm not sure what happens in a multi disk environment.

I understand that it will put the OS on the largest drive and then so what it does is allocate a 20GB partition on the 1TB drive and then the rest becomes "d:\ - Data" when you add the other drives they extend the d:\ volume
 
Datamonkey said:
Yep,

I have the ex475, upgraded the cpu and mem, and its running sweet, Nice and quiet and uses a lot less electricity compaired to the xeon 3210 with 4 1tb drives in it i was running previously lol.

Nice bit of kit. Itunes server built in is quite nice as well. I also purchased Avast home server which also gives you 10 licenses for avast pro and perfectdisk 2008 which is also very good.
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Can you explain what the itunes server bit is?
 
wonder_lander said:
Because of the issues I had with my install I'm not sure what happens in a multi disk environment.

I understand that it will put the OS on the largest drive and then so what it does is allocate a 20GB partition on the 1TB drive and then the rest becomes "d:\ - Data" when you add the other drives they extend the d:\ volume
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Cheers for the quick response, think I'll take the Raptor out then as at 36gb it's not worth having in the server if it's not for the operating system.

Soon to be found on the members market me thinks.

Will put in one of the spare 250gb's i've got in one of the draws'

Taff
 
Supertaff said:
Cheers for the quick response, think I'll take the Raptor out then as at 36gb it's not worth having in the server if it's not for the operating system.

Soon to be found on the members market me thinks.

Will put in one of the spare 250gb's i've got in one of the draws
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Base OS drive has to be at least 80gb or it won't even go near it to install WHS. I had the same idea with a spare 36gb Raptor I've got that I was going to use for the OS.... but alas, it was not to be.

WHS Minimum System Requirements
 
Looking at how my server is filling up the disks it seems to be placing most of the data on the smallest 250GB drive and then using the middle samsung for the duplication. Nothing apart from the OS seems to be landing on the first samsung.

When should I look at upgrading the disks and what should the stratergy be? When the 250GB gets full can I safely use the remove and then replace it say with a TB?

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I've got the home server up and running now, just a matter of working out how to configure it all.

But have a question on installing new drives I hope someone can help me with.

I currently have a 1TB drive in my NAS box that contains all my music, photos and DVD's

Is it possible to just install this drive into the WHS and for it to see all of the files and I can then put them into the correct place, or do I need to copy them over onto WHS

Thanks

Taff
 
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