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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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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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Jun 12, 2010 11:02
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Thermopyle posted:Anyone have any recommendations for a PCI or PCI Express card with 4+ internal SATA ports? I'm actually wondering the same thing. I had an old FastTrack SATA Raid card that I had set up to run as JBOD but WHS hated it. So I've scrapped it and bought a cheap-rear end card from Ebay to see how it runs, it's not RAID, just 4 internal ports. I'm sure performance will be pretty bad running through PCI, but does anyone know just HOW badly performance will be impacted? Hopefully this card will do the job for a while and then I'll upgrade to a decent card.
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Jun 20, 2010 22:10
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Wiseblood posted:The WDxxEARS drives are those advanced format drives that will require some effort to get working properly in the current version of WHS (Vail should support them natively). It's probably more trouble than it's worth. Exactly what limitations are involved here!? I just got a 2TB EARS and it "appears" to be working correctly in there. One thing I did notice however is that My Computer lists 2.3TB Freespace, yet only 212GB capacity!? Can you provide some information? I wonder if my problems similar to what you're talking about.
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Jun 22, 2010 02:01
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I'm looking at picking up an Antec Three Hundred case to transplant my WHS box. Possibly with the EarthWatts 750 PSU. Anyone had any experience with these? I've read a few reviews, but what I'm after is cool and quiet.
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Jun 26, 2010 00:22
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savesthedayrocks posted:Speaking of restoring a computer, my wife's laptop needs to be restored. I inserted the disk, plugged the network cable in to my wireless router, but the pc can't find the server. On my laptop, I can see and log into the server. Can you get to it by IP?
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Jul 7, 2010 00:03
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Rapetimus Prime posted:A friend of mine has been running Vail for a little while now and I've been really impressed with it. Since my current WHS install is acting wackier than usual lately, I'm looking at reinstalling with Vail. I was under the impression that, because Drive Extender is so different, you need to completely back up all your data and start fresh - copying it back on after install. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong though as this is the only reason I've not tried it yet. I'm also interested in knowing if i'd have to do the same thing once Vail is released proper? or if I can just re-install leaving the data/drive pool alone.
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Jul 21, 2010 11:41
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beuges posted:I didn't follow the walkthru as such, but I set up WHS under hyper-v this week. I already had a box running hyper-v with a bunch of other VMs on it, and my WHS box died, so I decided to move the drives into the hyper-v box as a VM. What's the performance like in general with this? Seems pretty good and I'd be interested in having a shot at it! Do you mind sharing your specs for the host box? I've never used Hyper-V before, but I'd imagine it's fairly resource hungry as opposed to say a Ubuntu host running VBoxHeadless or something?
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Jul 23, 2010 00:13
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Anjow posted:If my OS drive on my home server is about to fail but I can still read the contents, what's the procedure for replacing it? I imagine I have to go through the procedure to remove the disc to get the files off the data part of it, but how do I go about getting the OS on another disc? Am I meant to take it out and just install afresh on another disc? I was going to recommend Ghosting the drive - but this says otherwise: http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php/topic/10600-using-ghost-to-clone-replace-os-drive/ wegotserved.com has some pretty good guides and I've seen on there that other users have Ghosted successfully before - but I believe that takes a fair bit of registry hacking because of the way DriveExtender indexes the drives.
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Jul 23, 2010 00:15
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http://www.wegotserved.com/2010/08/16/windows-home-server-vail-rc0 This is looking great. OSX Support is something I can't wait for as every machine bar my WHS is OSX. Media streaming via Silverlight and Email alerts without addins are massive steps forward in my opinion.
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Aug 17, 2010 03:48
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Also looks like there's a "Drives" tab which more or less will replace the Disk Management add-in for WHSv1 Awesome.
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Aug 17, 2010 05:11
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I've been using AusLogics Disk Defrag on mine and it seems to do a good job and is pretty fast too. Tweaking the settings and playing with the priority of the defrag helps with not slowing to a crawl aswell. Not sure what the general concensus is but its free and seems to work, I actually use it on all my Windows PC's.
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Dec 29, 2010 01:09
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Nebulis01 posted:It's great hardware, enterprise level support too. You can get a 4hr mission critical 5 year warranty on that box And it's also an awesome little enthusiast box! Shove 8GB RAM, either ECC or non-ECC DDR3 in it, USB port on the motherboard, eSATA port at the back (not port multiplying) Can also fit 6 3.5" drives in it with little fuss and a 2.5" for OS or ZFS cache etc. Love it!
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