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Having some concerns with my WHS lately. Hopefully someone here can shed some light on it.
Recently my WHS seems to freeze/pause and in general seems to be slower than it use to be. For instance when I open up windows explorer on my main PC (Win7 Pro 64bit) the folders on the left won't show up. I just get mangifying glasses. If I open another explorer right away everything will be there on the new window, but still searching on the old one.(Pic below). Also when I am going through my picutures, if I am in list view and switch to thumbnail view, I don't get any previews, like it's just sitting there thinking. If I open another explorer view and go straight to that folder and go into thumbnail view, they pop up just like I figure they should. Another thing that happens is if I am moving or copying files from one folder to another it will pause for a 30 seconds or so, and then resume the copy/move.
I can't seem to put my finger on the time when it started happening. Things were going great and I am not sure what has changed. Most recent addition has been the 1.5TB WD Green drive.
All my drives minues the boot drive are the WD Green EADS drives, so not worries on the sector size issues.
Any suggestions would be awesome. Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this? Any maintenance I should run on the disks? Pleae help!! Because it's annoying.
Specs:
ASUS P5Q-SE Plus
Intel e5200
4gb RAM
1 x 500gb WD
4 x 1TB WD Green EADS
1 x 1.5TB WD Green EADS
Window after switching to thumbnails
Explorer on the left searching, second explorer open right after
I am going to assume the absolute silence in this thread means we are all using WHS 2011 without a hitch or we never switched over from V1 because we are still butt hurt about DE. I am the former.
I am going to assume the absolute silence in this thread means we are all using WHS 2011 without a hitch or we never switched over from V1 because we are still butt hurt about DE. I am the former.
If you are using 2011 without any difficulties, then you may be in the minority. Try backing up a Mac and see what happens. As the testing in real world after the RTM, a few problems are starting to crop up. Have you tried installing connector on a win7 ultimate yet ?
In outfitting a new WHS 2011 build I'm considering using an SSD for the boot drive, with of course, large capacity, conventional SATA drives for the storage requirements.
In addition to the speed advantages, a small SSD will allow me to image the WHS OS without having to also image a lot of data that WHS might also put on the boot drive.
Is my thinking sound here?
Also does Supermicro manufacture SSD adapters for their conventional 3.5 " hot swap bays?
Thanks!
Also does Supermicro manufacture SSD adapters for their conventional 3.5 " hot swap bays?
Thanks!
I'm pretty certain that 2011 requires a minimum 160 GB drive for the OS, and then it installs on a 60 GB partition on that drive. That's what it is on my server, anyway. So you'd need a pretty large SSD to run it unless you can install on a hard drive, then image it to the SSD. I don't know if that's possible. You can back up the 60 GB OS partition without backing up any data if you want.
I'm pretty certain that 2011 requires a minimum 160 GB drive for the OS, and then it installs on a 60 GB partition on that drive. That's what it is on my server, anyway. So you'd need a pretty large SSD to run it unless you can install on a hard drive, then image it to the SSD. I don't know if that's possible. You can back up the 60 GB OS partition without backing up any data if you want.
Your hot swap tray shouldn't need an adapter for a 2.5" drive, it should have 4 holes on the bottom to mount the drive.
OK great.
I think I am going to go the route of a small SSD for the boot. It may not make too much speed difference, but it seems like a better way to go then just using another large capacity HDD for the boot drive. Am I wrong here?
Is there any way to tell WHS 2011 to NOT store any data on the boot drive?
Yes. very much possible. just need to insert a file on the instllation media (USB for example)
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whsvailbeta/thread/b4536418-357c-4483-b493-190ba541ba40
The Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool, will also work in creating a bpootable WHS2011 USD stick.
Yes, once you install you can remove the boot drive from the Data Storage area
Ok, that is great.
I don't recall if the original WHS had that capability, however I never really looked into it.
It certainly seems like the best way to go, no?
I am wanting to build a data server for my home for shares that will contain our Pictures/Music/Documents and as a dump for our HTPC to record to and stream from. I was looking at Windows Home Server for the single fact that it allows one to pull drives that die and or replace drives for larger drives without losing data or having to rebuild everything. Having that on site redundancy and the ability to upgrade space on the fly is VERY appealing however as I understand it the new version of WHS no longer functions this way.
Should I move forward with the older WHS OS or look into using something like Amahi instead?
WHS2 is now available commercially , price is $106.00
For me personally it is missing the one great feature that made the original a must have, brain dead move on Microsoft's part imo.
I now use 2011, although reluctantly due to the de exclusion. It works just as the old one did but now I have to be conscience as to where and how I organize my data, mainly movies. I thought about going raid but I didn't want to mess around with that on top of a whole new system. So far so good but I still miss de.
How is your data protected and how will you go about adding more storage to the system later on, are you not limited to just the storage space on each individual drive?
At the risk of getting ripped apart here, I think the removal of DE is getting a bit overblown.
WHS took me a grand total of about 15 minutes to get up and running...
So are Hitachi 7K3000 and 5K3000 the only 512byte sector 2TB drives left in the market? 20EADS seems to be dwindling in stock by the day, and other 2TB like the Samsung and Seagate are Advanced Format.
I'm still rocking my 2 year old WHS v1 here, still solid and does the job for me.