Recent content by jfkriege

I explored both RAID on Server 2003 or just building a box for WHS. In the end I went with WHS. A good friend of mine went the other way. At less than $.90 a gig, hard drives are relatively cheap. My friend dropped a huge amount of money on a nice Areca RAID card. I will have to have a lot...

Has everyone given up on WHS, or does no one back up their data?

I have a second WHS machine setup, but I cannot setup another WHS to back it up using the internal tools. I tried using SyncToy, and it worked but is was incredibly slow (1/3 of normal network throughput), which for multiple terabytes is just painful. How would you go about backing up one...

I already have three copies on site and another off site. If they all get destroyed in a day, then the giant meteor got me too, or it was meant to be. At this point, if I really needed more security, I would start trading server space with friends in other states and just mail hard drives...

Online backups would be wonderful to be able to use, but for almost all of the photographers I know it is simply not practical. I know that when shooting a wedding, it is about average for me to come back with 30-40GB of data from a single day of shooting. With a new camera, that would bump up...

I can get behind RAID 1 for that. I have just seen too many people who think they are covered by it as a backup. As well, I have only ever had to deal with drive failures a few times. I typically replace drives long before they would hit MTBF to keep up with speed and density. Before I broke...

I am a professional photographer, and just rebuilt my entire storage system to deal with future expansion. It is actually similar to the suggestion in the post above. I have a main WHS that stores all of my files. I have a second WHS on site that is not plugged in except for once weekly...

I transferred about 1TB of data last night in 6 batches. Duplication was on for everything until I can get the backup server up and running as well and then duplication will come off for most of it. It finished copying about 4 hours before I checked it, and it was completely on two drives...

I think that everything is up to date. I just updated everything last night, unless power pack two is downloaded outside of Windows Update. How long will it take to make it all balance on its own?

I just got another WHS installation up and running, and have bumped into a problem. I have 3 1TB drives installed. I started transferring data across and ran into a hurdle. It has filled up two of the drives and the primary drive (where the OS resides) has nothing on it. It will not let me...

Has WHS been confirmed on Technet?

I ordered five drives from newegg recently and they came incredibly well packaged. I have had some poor packaging before, but I feel like they are turning around and doing things well again.

I really appreciate the thoughts. Right now it is balancing power and size that I am interested in. One the one hand, I need a lot of space. I am going to use this for photography, which is a growing storage need to the tune of 2-3TB a year depending on volume and type of shooting. I am...

Ockie, the one thing I read about the 3com switches is that they are a little loud, or in some cases, a lot loud. Have you had this experience? And do you think it would be reasonable to change out the fans if it gets too noisy? Joshua

I have a second system that I plug in once a week to back up the first; otherwise it is turned off and completely unplugged from the wall and ethernet. Critical data is also backed up to a system of tray mounted drives nightly, and taken off site weekly. I am mildly paranoid, but even if my...