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stgdz posted:I thought it was a bad idea to have the OS drive be separate from the the share drives. In Vail you cant have a separate drive just for the OS.
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kri kri posted:In Vail you cant have a separate drive just for the OS. Do they mirror it across all the drives in the system now?
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May 26, 2010 17:56
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dietcokefiend posted:Do they mirror it across all the drives in the system now? You can make the OS drive not part of the pool - is that what you mean?
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May 26, 2010 18:22
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kri kri posted:You can make the OS drive not part of the pool - is that what you mean? Well on like the synologies the main OS is mirrored across every drive in the unit so if a drive fails (including the main drive) it can still function.
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I want to turn my desktop into a NAS that can survive the loss of a single drive. The OP's articles on Drive Extender piqued my curiosity. But I already have a license for Windows Server 2008 R2 (I'm a home user though, I don't know or know how to use most of the features). Does it have an equivalent of Drive Extender? Would there be any advantage to getting WHS?
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MachinTrucChose posted:I want to turn my desktop into a NAS that can survive the loss of a single drive. The OP's articles on Drive Extender piqued my curiosity. It does not have anything like Drive Extender. WHS is unique in that respect. I am only recommending WHS v1 because of the fact it stores all files in normal NTFS. In a situation where you have 2 failing drives WHS v2 loses all data while WHS v1 loses only the data on the 2 drives plus or minus recovery efforts. WHS v2 has no recovery software due to the way it uses disks. WHS v1 can use any of the hundreds of recovery utilities you can get for standard XP NTFS.
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May 26, 2010 20:45
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MachinTrucChose posted:I want to turn my desktop into a NAS that can survive the loss of a single drive. The OP's articles on Drive Extender piqued my curiosity. You could always run Hyper-V on Server 2008 and run a VM WHS v1. There's a guide in the OP on this that would work.
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I've had a Acer EasyStore for a while now, its got the stock drive and 2 1.5tb drives. The top most bay is the only one free and I don't really want to put a new 2tb drive in the hottest part of the system. Could I swap one of the 1.5s or even the system drive to the top without breaking anything software-wize? Jigoku San fucked around with this message at 05:23 on May 28, 2010 |
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May 28, 2010 05:20
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Jigoku San posted:I've had a Acer EasyStore for a while now, its got the stock drive and 2 1.5tb drives. I am nearly sure you can. WHS should not care which disk is plugged into which port except for the boot disk. Of course you swap them with the system turned off.
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May 28, 2010 05:36
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There aren't any add-ins available for Vail yet are there? I got it all installed and am anxious to try it out.
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May 29, 2010 08:09
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Anyone here run the logitech slimserver for streaming music? I installed it last night on the home server but I can't figure out how to stream music from it now.
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Jun 3, 2010 15:56
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I still question why MS is not allowing their prime living room media device, the 360, to be backed up along with all of the other computers in your household. There would have to be some obvious limitations to restrict piracy (although the horse is already out of the barn on that one), but it would be extremely convenient.
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EC posted:I still question why MS is not allowing their prime living room media device, the 360, to be backed up along with all of the other computers in your household. There would have to be some obvious limitations to restrict piracy (although the horse is already out of the barn on that one), but it would be extremely convenient. That's a great point. I only own four or five 360 games, but with my 360 only having a 20Gb Hard Drive, I can only really have one game installed on it. I'd dearly love to be able to back the others up and stream them from WHS.
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Maybe I'm missing it, but how can I monitor my cpu and mobo temperatures in WHS? I built my own so my WHS console doesnt have a hardware tab under Config?
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modeski posted:That's a great point. I only own four or five 360 games, but with my 360 only having a 20Gb Hard Drive, I can only really have one game installed on it. I'd dearly love to be able to back the others up and stream them from WHS. I doubt they'll ever let you install retail games to anything other than the HDD. I was talking about purchased content and game saves. It would suck to lose all of my save games.
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Uziel posted:Maybe I'm missing it, but how can I monitor my cpu and mobo temperatures in WHS? I built my own so my WHS console doesnt have a hardware tab under Config? Mine was prebuilt, so it may be different. On the top there should be a >> arrow, click that then system information and it is down on the bottom under health monitor
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savesthedayrocks posted:Mine was prebuilt, so it may be different. On the top there should be a >> arrow, click that then system information and it is down on the bottom under health monitor
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Uziel posted:Yeah I don't have that at all. =( Use Speccy or SPeedfan?
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kri kri posted:Use Speccy or SPeedfan?
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I have an AMD 64x2 processor I want to replace with a C2D 8400 for better transcoding for tversity. What is the safest way to transfer a WHS system? Move the system drive to start it up and then slowly add all the HDDs?
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i did that going from a via nano to a intel atom and after a huge number of reboots as it recognised the new system its been running fine ever since.
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Does anyone know if it would be feasible to install an email server on top of WHS? I'm thinking that since my WHS will be on 24/7 then I may as well use it as an email server as well, since I rather like the idea of not giving my data to third parties. I have to admit zero clue about running a mail server, but I'm game.
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modeski posted:Does anyone know if it would be feasible to install an email server on top of WHS? I'm thinking that since my WHS will be on 24/7 then I may as well use it as an email server as well, since I rather like the idea of not giving my data to third parties. I have to admit zero clue about running a mail server, but I'm game. Yes it's certainly possible, although it opens up a whole new can of worms in terms of successfully running an email server on what I'm assuming is a residential ISP (although you can certainly setup smart hosts to relay through your ISP, etc) Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Jun 8, 2010 |
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Jun 8, 2010 22:56
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Maneki Neko posted:Yes it's certainly possible, although it opens up a whole new can of worms in terms of successfully running an email server on what I'm assuming is a residential ISP (although you can certainly setup smart hosts to relay through your ISP, etc) Excellent. I'll look more into it over the coming months. Yeah, I figure I'll need to find an ISP that allows SMTP over port 25 (that's right, isn't it?). And I don't know what a smart host is but I'll look into those too.
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modeski posted:Excellent. I'll look more into it over the coming months. Yeah, I figure I'll need to find an ISP that allows SMTP over port 25 (that's right, isn't it?). And I don't know what a smart host is but I'll look into those too. If you use a smart host you can host your email on a dynamic connection with little issue (setup an auto update script for zoneedit) I've been hosting my email that way for over 2 years now with no problems. It's not on the WHS box, its VM'ed on a server 2k8 r2 server, but it works flawlessly that way.
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So I want to build a Home Server box, but I'm limited by cash at the moment. My idea was to build a box with 1 or 2 2TB Green drives to begin with and as more funds become available purchase more, eventually having 4 x 2TB or more. DriveExpander seems to be able to do this beautifully. But Vail doesn't support it? I'm comfortable with a Unix server, however are there any competitors to the DriveExpander? My understanding here is that if I build a Unix or even Server2008 box, and wanted to add in more drives later, I'd have to blow away the RAID array and rebuild it? I love that I can just physically install a new drive, format it and add it to the disk pool with DriveExpander, but are there any alternatives? Free/OSS would be even better!
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Obviously Erratic posted:So I want to build a Home Server box, but I'm limited by cash at the moment. In WHS you can add or remove drives at will, they will be added or removed from the drive pool and you don't have to jump through any hoops to do it. Plug it in, go into the console, and select "add to drive pool" where it will be formatted and added to the array for files. Easy.
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Obviously Erratic posted:So I want to build a Home Server box, but I'm limited by cash at the moment. mdadm (Linux) can do an in place expansion of a RAID5 set. Or if you don't care about your data you should be able to do some kind of RAID0 with pretty much anything and keep adding disks.
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Obviously Erratic posted:DriveExpander seems to be able to do this beautifully. But Vail doesn't support it? This is incorrect, Vail absolutely supports Drive Extender. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3677/windows-home-server-v2-vail-beta-drive-extender-v2-dissected All they've done is move it from above the file system to below the file system, which has improved performance and file duplication.
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BorderPatrol posted:This is incorrect, Vail absolutely supports Drive Extender. Bah, looks like I completely misread the changes. Thanks for the information. Seems it'll still do what I'm after, it's a shame it's not NTFS anymore, though my guess is it won't be long before someone codes software that can read it. I'm midway through installing Vail on some ghetto hardware to do a bit of testing before I go out and purchase the hardware.
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I've started having a helluva time trying to rename/move folders on my WHS box. Almost every time I try it says the folder/filename is in use, even though it's not open anywhere. This had to start relatively recently, but I haven't changed anything on my server or workstations for quite some time. Highly loving irritating.
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EC posted:I've started having a helluva time trying to rename/move folders on my WHS box. Almost every time I try it says the folder/filename is in use, even though it's not open anywhere. This had to start relatively recently, but I haven't changed anything on my server or workstations for quite some time. I've had a ton of problems with my local machine updating thumbs.db for music/picture/movie folders. I usually just move on and come back to those. Very annoying but nothing you can really do about it.
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gariig posted:I've had a ton of problems with my local machine updating thumbs.db for music/picture/movie folders. I usually just move on and come back to those. Very annoying but nothing you can really do about it. Disable thumbnail generation. I've been doing lots of file management with videos and the like recently and I couldn't take the constant file in use errors.
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All four of the hard drives in my WHS started failing simultaneously. I don't think I've lost any data yet due to folder duplication, but there's no way this is just a coincidence. What could have possibly happened to my WHS?
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Stutes posted:All four of the hard drives in my WHS started failing simultaneously. I don't think I've lost any data yet due to folder duplication, but there's no way this is just a coincidence. What could have possibly happened to my WHS? Sounds like hardware to me - are the drives defintely bad, or is WHS just saying they're failing? You could have a disk controller making GBS threads the bed. Also, a hosed-up power supply can be REALLY hard on disk drives.
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JnnyThndrs posted:Sounds like hardware to me - are the drives defintely bad, or is WHS just saying they're failing? You could have a disk controller making GBS threads the bed. Also, a hosed-up power supply can be REALLY hard on disk drives. I'm guessing there's no simple way of testing a power supply? Stutes fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jun 13, 2010 |
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Yeesh, that *is* an odd problem, especially with two different controllers. Personally, I'd probably go out and replace the PS, just for shits and giggles. They're not horribly expensive, even for a good one, and testing them for weird transient voltage issues isn't worth the effort. Also, it might be worth it to run a good UPS, they'll take care of any voltage oddities coming in from the line. I read an interesting column from the editor of Maximum PC - he said that PC's on one side of their testlab had an amazingly high rate of disk drive failures compared to the other side, but it took a year for someone to notice that the failures were confined to one area. Ended up being a power issue in the building.
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So is it possible to have user specific shared folders? Like the client runs and logs them into WHS and then the shared network folder they see is just their stuff not anyone elses?
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Sweeper posted:So is it possible to have user specific shared folders? Like the client runs and logs them into WHS and then the shared network folder they see is just their stuff not anyone elses? Every user you create via the console will automatically have their own folder in the Users share. Default permissions are setup so that only the admin and that user can access it, I believe, but you can change that if you want.
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EC posted:Every user you create via the console will automatically have their own folder in the Users share. Default permissions are setup so that only the admin and that user can access it, I believe, but you can change that if you want. -Root --User1 ---User1Data --User2 ---User2Data --Public ---PublicData I want people to be able to back up their computers to the server, but not have everyone see all of the files and give them some private storage room. Then have media files be in the public folder. Also, how are the MediaSmart servers? Would it be better to roll my own or does it not really matter? Pricewise how close would it be, I'm looking for ~5-6TB of space in the server.
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