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nitrobass24 said:
BTW you can run hardware RAID on WHS just like you would 2003 or 2008.
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/ammended

WHS works great, avoid the demo if you can. You'll most likely end up using WHS and have to reinstall with a full version after the demo runs out, pita.
 
Okay well after a 6 month vacation from WHS I am back.

I have 7x750gb WD drives that at on my highpoint 2300 which they are going to stay. I will be having 1 750gb drive for OS and a 500gb pool drive.

I will be using mcontrol addin for home automation....

I also have mozy home backup so I'll need to see how to keep that working.
 
benogil said:
http://www.openegg.org/forums/posts/list/28.page , a native software RAID for WHS.

Ben Ogilvie
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Thats old news.
And its not any better than the built in duplication.
It runs on a schedule and is not real time.

It just make it more complicated without adding benefit.

If they make it real time it will be a great alternative for those that dont want the disks overhead that duplication brings.....but until then I just dont see the point.
 
[LYL]Homer;1034340481 said:
/ammended

WHS works great, avoid the demo if you can. You'll most likely end up using WHS and have to reinstall with a full version after the demo runs out, pita.
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New slogun:

WHS: Too good for a demo.

:p
 
I recently installed WHS on an older machine of mine and threw in a few HD's. One of the drives has a bunch of music on it and now whenever I go to share the folder, I can map it on my other computers but whenever I try to access it, I keep getting a "Windows cannot access \\server\(name of folder). It does it for every folder I try to share.

How do I get around this error? and is there a way to add my music drive to the default folder even though the music is on a different drive?

Edit: I am now able to get to the drive after adding a few things in the security tab however, I am not able to write to the folder. Any ideas?
 
It sounds like you added the drives and shared them out without importing them into the drive pool. If not, then ignore the following:

WHS does some Microsoft mojo in terms of security settings. From my experience, if you have data on a pre-existing drive you're better off creating a share via WHS interface, copying the files from the drive into that share, then import the drive into the drive pool.

Trying to use WHS like a regular file server will result in huge headaches down the road...trust me on this.
 
hi there,i'm a happy user of this O.S and i've start using it a few days ago,my hardware are:
Gibabyte motherboard G31M-ES2L
2gb or DDr800 ram
4x 1 terabyte Western Digital green ones

i use the on board nic that supports Jumbo frame as my router ,a Dlink DIR655


The question is what kind of power scheme should i use to save some energy while i'm out or during the night when my downloads stop or ther's no backup scheduled?

Thanks in advance and buy the way,nice thread indeed.;)
 
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pbls said:
hi there,i'm a happy user of this O.S and i've start using it a few days ago,my hardware are:
Gibabyte motherboard G31M-ES2L
2gb or DDr800 ram
4x 1 terabyte Western Digital green ones

i use the on board nic that supports Jumbo frame as my router ,a Dlink DIR655


The question is what kind of power scheme should i use to save some energy while i'm out or during the night when my downloads stop or ther's no backup scheduled?

Thanks in advance and buy the way,nice thread indeed.;)
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There's an addon called Lights Out that might be of interest to you, you can set the server to shut down when all clients are inactive, or on a set schedule (like while you're at work).

http://www.whsplus.com/2009/06/26/lightsout/
 
Thanks Antimatter but what i really want to know is if i can use the the spin down or turn off the hard disks in the server 2003 (home server) power options. .
 
pbls said:
Thanks Antimatter but what i really want to know is if i can use the the spin down or turn off the hard disks in the server 2003 (home server) power options. .
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No.

Nor am I aware of any addons that can do this.
 
i know that i can use this windows option but i'm afraid it can damage something,like this:

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What's a good mobo for the WHS? I'm currently using a DG965WH and it'stransfer rates are abysmal. I've upgraded to Cat6, added a Prosafe router, and installed intel server drivers and that increased it but barely anything negligible. Best I can get is 3.0Mb (Originally 2.4) using this setup. I have googled it and others have had the same problem with this mobo and WHS. Is there a tuning guide to make sure I'm getting full throughput? I would assume I should get atleast 20Mb/sec while using gigabit connections.
 
Just about anything else would work better.
Shit dood thats terrible.
 
SKiZZ said:
What's a good mobo for the WHS? I'm currently using a DG965WH and it'stransfer rates are abysmal. I've upgraded to Cat6, added a Prosafe router, and installed intel server drivers and that increased it but barely anything negligible. Best I can get is 3.0Mb (Originally 2.4) using this setup. I have googled it and others have had the same problem with this mobo and WHS. Is there a tuning guide to make sure I'm getting full throughput? I would assume I should get atleast 20Mb/sec while using gigabit connections.
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do you have jumbo frames enabled?
 
The intel drivers don't allow it as an option on WHS. If they do, I can't find it. I have it enabled on my other pc's.
 
Can't you upgrade for a pcie 1X gigabit nic with that option,i bet it would transforme your machine.;)
 
Not really.Its Overkill.....but hey this is still [H] right?

it was really just second option to show what you can get for so much $$
 
Hi guys,

Just after a CPU/Mobo/RAM combo for my WHS, due to noise issues Im passing up on the Norco for now and sticking with my Coolermaster Cosmos S case.

What are some suggestions? I have ben out of the hardware loop for a while. Cool/silent is the aim.
 
I've added a supermicro aoc-sat2-mv8 and have a couple of hard drives connected to it. I'm not getting a temp reading in disk management. Is there a trick to get this to work?
 
Neb said:
It sounds like you added the drives and shared them out without importing them into the drive pool. If not, then ignore the following:

WHS does some Microsoft mojo in terms of security settings. From my experience, if you have data on a pre-existing drive you're better off creating a share via WHS interface, copying the files from the drive into that share, then import the drive into the drive pool.

Trying to use WHS like a regular file server will result in huge headaches down the road...trust me on this.
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I ended up taking the 2 additional drives that I added to the system and copied everything from one to the other, then had the empty one formatted and added to the drive pool then repeated the process with the other drive. Got them added but still ran into a problem when sharing the drives through the console. So what I did was changed the share settings on whatever folder I wanted to share plus changed the user settings and everything works just fine.

I would like to be able to change the default folders but don't think that is possible. I have WHS installed on an 80gb drive and then have everything else on separate drives.

Now I am going to try to make WHS also serve as an email server for my home
 
I dunno try it and let us know how it works out.

Someones gotta be the guinea pig :)
 
Yea the top one is better, but thebeephaha has it for sale for $30 so you might inquire about that.
 
Performance-wise they're the same aren't they? The 9400 is the server version, 9300 is the desktop. If you want to team Intel NICs, one has to be a server version. Other than that are there any other real-world differences?
 
I think the 9400 does TOE offload and the 9300 does not, but dont quote me on that in addition to the teaming stuff..
 
I've read through this great thread, thanks to everybody's contributions.

I have a question regarding drives already added to a pool, and then having to rebuild WHS from scratch (or the "re-install" option). I read that thebeephaha had to do a reinstall, and his storage/disk pool of 5TB hard drives were actually formatted, so all the data was gone.

Is there a recommended way to reformat a WHS box without affecting the storage pool? How does a new/fresh install of WHS see the previous storage pool (say you had 4 1TB drives in a pool)?

Alternatively, say you build a 2nd WHS box, and physically moved the entire previous storage pool of 4x1TB drives into it. Will the 2nd WHS box see that storage pool? Or do you have to backup that data to say a 3rd location --> then add those 4 1TB disks to a new storage pool on the 2nd WHS box, and restore the data by copying to shares?

I ask because I usually just have hard drives in a JBOD configuration, and I can take those SATA drives and add them to any PC --> old box, new box, work PC, a friends PC, etc, and I know they will be seen by any flavor of Windows. And WHS should work the same way for a storage pool disk -- it's still NTFS, but it has its own mojo from a share/security permissions standpoint. Thanks.
 
I'm not sure what you can do, but what I choose to do is build a second WHS box and copy the data a bit at a time over the network from WHS1 to WHS2. I pulled drives from WHS1 and added them to WHS2 as I cleared space.
 
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