Windows Home Server

No, you have to include the drive into the pool and it will delete all the data.

Get yourself another 1TB drive, add that to the pool, then install your other drive and copy all the data over.

Make sure you copy it the "Shared Folders on Server" and not directly to the C or D drive on WHS

wonder_lander said:
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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Yes, you'd just install the new drive and add it into the pool, then "remove" the old drive and the data will get copied across.

Nearly filled up, might have to buy 1.5TB disc next week

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My windows Home Server box shoudl be arriving on wednesday. At the moment I just have 1 Samsung 1TB HDD for it. Any ideas how WHS will treat it storage wise?
I am not going to buy any new HDD yet as I am waiting for the new 2TB HDD to become available
 
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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Are they this chap now? They were a lot more when they first arrived. If they are £300 for the PC, the 1 drive it comes with and the licence, its not bad.

I would be interested in peoples experiences tho
 
Skeeter said:
Are they this chap now? They were a lot more when they first arrived. If they are £300 for the PC, the 1 drive it comes with and the licence, its not bad.

I would be interested in peoples experiences tho
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The EX470 / 475s aren't really available any more, but you might be able to pick up a cheap one from somewhere trying to clear their stock. HP has just launched the 485/487s which have upgraded hardware and new software. You can read more about them at:

http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/2008/12/29/hp-mediasmart-server-ex485-ex487-announced/

To be honest, with the new versions likely to cost the same as the originals when they were first realeased, you'd probably be better building your own or buying one from somewhere else... I see that OcUK now offer one too:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-138-OK
 
£563 that seems crazy expensive!

I was lucky when I upgraded to a Q6600 I just made my old AMD S939 4400+ into my server rig.
 
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Got a link to that disk management add-in Wonder_Lander? I like it.
With more than one hard drive, WHS copies it off the "landing zone" (D: drive). Only when the other Hard drives are full, or it needs to use D space for duplication etc, will it use the D: drive.
 
Anyone know what happens when the end of the 120 day evaluation version comes around?

Does it just ask you for the full key if you buy one, or do you have to go through a full rebuild?

I was just thinking as I'm setting all of this up now and don't want to have to do it again if after the time period if I'm happy to stay with it

Cheers

Taff
 
Just out of interest HEADRAT what usenet client are you using? And how come you're opening and closing it? Why not just use built in scheduling features? Check sabNZBd which i suspect you're not using. Its quite probably the best usenet client out right now even more so when you use its remote web based interface :)
 
Very good! Best addon by miles I think. Cheers!
Avast! Home server edition is £30 for 1 year, £42 for 2 years if anyione needs one. No idea how that compares to others. I use Avast on all my PC's (+ friends and family) so Ive purchased a years worth.

That addon allows wireframes to be drawn and disks attatched to it Very handy for me since I have disks horizontal and vertical in hot-swap bays. I think im in love! Microsoft should have offered exactly that from the start!
 
HEADRAT said:
Yes, you'd just install the new drive and add it into the pool, then "remove" the old drive and the data will get copied across.
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OK thanks for that. I've got space for 4 drives and have picked up a 400GB drive from the MM which I was going to stick into my last free bay. Any harm in me leaving the 250GB in there?
 
I need to sort a server, or atleast some more storage quite soon as im rapidly running out of space on my PC, and also im getting fed up with having my PC on overnight.

Any suggestions on the cheapest way to build a silent WHS? I was thinking either a Tranquil PC, or an EEE Box, with external storage, Unfortunately the only spare PC I have is an old one that only takes SATA1, altho I do have my recently retired DS3 Mobo.
 
I'm looking at installing home server and am considering two options for the hardware.

First a Dual CPU PIII 866mhz with 1.5gb of RAM (thats the max the board will take)

or.... second hand dell poweredge server from a well known auction site for about £150. Dual 2.8ghz xeons with 2gb of ram or similar

Obviously the faster option is going to be option 2 but I'm going to stick the trial of home server on dual pIII 866 and see how it copes with it first I think. Wish me luck!
 
First option is underkill, other option is overkill.... :)

Dont expect the server to be very quiet though... I home you have a cupboard to hide it in.
 
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