Re: Re: WHS Tips

["Jamie Bennett" <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxxxx>]

At least with programs like nero you can set up the temp dir, WHS's
pool
approach won't as far as I can see :(

On Nov 18, 2007 10:44 AM, Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>   That approach is not just a problem in WHS. Download a file in Vista
> and it gets put onto the C drive and then gets copied to the final
> destination when complete. Not only do you need to keep enough space
> free, but you also have to wait for the file copy after the download
has
> finished :-(
>
> Nero does a similar thing - using C for temp storage. I've had trouble
> setting up a movie conversion because I didn't have 20GB of space free
> on my C drive :-(
>
> Mal
>
>
> Jamie Bennett wrote:
> >
> > One problem I'm finding is with the way the drive extender works.
> >
> > I've installed WHS on a spare 80gb drive I had hanging around
thinking
> > this
> > would be plenty for a OS server install. But the way the drive
extender
> > works is that it 'pools' all hard drives together to make it seem
like
> > there
> > is one big bit of storage. In reality what happens is everything
gets
> > put on
> > the main disk (the 80gb one in my case) then farmed off onto the
other
> > disks
> > by the drive extender. The problem is that the drive extender
doesn't
> > constantly move files so even though I have a lot of free space
in
> there,
> > file copies and downloads are failing until the disks are
'rebalanced'.
> >
> > The technical PDF for drive extender recommends that you install
the OS
> on
> > the biggest drive possible to avoid these kinds of problems, nice
of
> > them to
> > tell me first! Anyway, looks like I'll be reinstalling WHS.
Anyone
> > know if a
> > ghost image and restore onto a larger disk would work with WHS?
> >
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> >
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