Data Corruption in WHS

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Does anyone know if the data corruption bug in WHS has been resolved? I am eager to try WHS, but everything I am planning to do with WHS will involve accessing files directly on WHS and also changing the metadata. I tried looking at M$ site or the web and all I see are beta fixes and no definite answers- maybe I'm looking n the wrong place?

I want to make sure that a production patch is out and the data corruption bug is squashed before I even move forward. Anyone in the know or have been using WHS can update me on the current status of the situation?
 
Oh and another question- has anyone used WD's 1TB GP drives on these and are they solid? I don't mind if they're slower, just want to make sure the spin speed throttling does not mess up WHS's disk management tech (in regards to duplication).
 
The PowerPack 1 update resolves the data coruption issue some (very few) have experienced. I never hit it but I installed the PP1 beta code when it got released a while back. I haven't had any issues with it either. The WD GP drives are great for WHS IMHO
 
I have one 1tb WD GP and three 750gb WD GP drives in my WHS box, I've been converting to them from a bunch of 320gb drives I initially had to try to save on my power bill. Performance-wise I haven't seen any drawbacks.

FYI, PowerPack1 with the data corruption fix is at Release Candidate status.
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2139&SiteID=50

I love WHS and am waiting for the production release to apply PP1. I'll start moving more functions to my WHS box when it goes live.
 
I downloaded the beta of PP1 last month. Works fine.

The corruption bug only popped up for a very few people. And only under very specific circumstances. You had to edit apps on WHS that were duplicated, remotely, and with certain apps.

I have done that very thing and never had a corruption issue.
 
I was waiting around for the utorrent plug-in to get fixed (data corruption issue), but I'm thinking that I'll just put a non-pool drive in my WHS box and deal with it there. I'm seeing that torrents in the pool under DE (drive extender) is probably a bad idea.
 
I guess I've waited since December, I can wait a few more weeks to get PP1 out and see if there's any bugs with that.

Thanks all for the info. i will be pairing up several TB GP drives with an EPIA board to save on the electric bills.
 
[LYL]Homer;1032758229 said:
I was waiting around for the utorrent plug-in to get fixed (data corruption issue), but I'm thinking that I'll just put a non-pool drive in my WHS box and deal with it there. I'm seeing that torrents in the pool under DE (drive extender) is probably a bad idea.
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I have used utorrent both before and after PP1. No problems.
 
I immediately ran into it.
My excel files got corrupted if I worked on them while they were stored on the WHS.
 
I would like to know if the network performance has been given a bump as well with the PP1 update. One of the things I never liked was how network throughput took such a hit with WHS especially writes, likely due to DE.
 
FuSoYa said:
I would like to know if the network performance has been given a bump as well with the PP1 update. One of the things I never liked was how network throughput took such a hit with WHS especially writes, likely due to DE.
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yes
 
FuSoYa said:
I would like to know if the network performance has been given a bump as well with the PP1 update. One of the things I never liked was how network throughput took such a hit with WHS especially writes, likely due to DE.
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I'm keeping an eye on WHS for when I save up for my own fileserver. (Been wanting one for nearly a decade now. Damn you, financial situations.)

Am I given to understand that transfers over the network from a WHS box is limited in speed to the speed of a single harddrive, rather than possibly the size of the pipe (like, say, a full blown 8-drive RAID5 saturating a gig pipe with ease)?

I can't find anything on Microsoft's page on WHS about performance, at all. Not a freckle. Anyone got any links?
 
alan.p said:
I'm keeping an eye on WHS for when I save up for my own fileserver. (Been wanting one for nearly a decade now. Damn you, financial situations.)

Am I given to understand that transfers over the network from a WHS box is limited in speed to the speed of a single harddrive, rather than possibly the size of the pipe (like, say, a full blown 8-drive RAID5 saturating a gig pipe with ease)?

I can't find anything on Microsoft's page on WHS about performance, at all. Not a freckle. Anyone got any links?
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I haven't seen any actual benchmarks. My transfer speeds are anywhere from 20MB/s to 45MB/s. But all I care about is that it can stream HD video and even on it's slowest speed it's WAY more than enough to do that. I even have my itunes library on it and sync across the network. You couldn't tell that was the case unless I told you. So the speeds are fine.
Essentially you are transferring to a single hard drive when you write to it. This isn't RAID so don't expect those speeds. But then again, it doesn't have the limitations of RAID either.
 
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