Re: Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

May I ask why you dropped the mac mini solution? From what I can
remember this (in its day) seemed to handle things better than windows
server could.

Wayne.

Phil Harris wrote:
> Oh absolutely - that was my big issue to get round myself - no longer
being
> aware of exactly what drive held what ... I've been manually
"fettling" my
> storage for years to the point of anally moving terabytes of data so
that my
> movies files were always stored alphabetically sorted across all the
movie
> drives (20+ of them on the old Mac Mini based server I had).
>
> I was using shared drives on an XP machine but XP doesn't handle being
used
> as a server very well plus I was running out of drive letters and
having my
> movies spread across over half a dozen network shares was a pain too.
:-D
>
> Phil
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of noughtomate
>> Sent: 16 December 2008 10:31
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!
>>
>> Phil,
>>
>> Hence why I said what I said in this thread :
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/message/153845
>>
>> Please don't take this as rubbing your face in it - I learned the
>> hardway.
>>
>> I've never trusted WHS, especially given the number of concerns
>> raised on Wegotserved.
>>
>> If anything manipulates your data so that you don't know where it
>> resides, then you need to question how recoverable it will be.
This
>> is even more so if you experience disk failure and need to pay for
a
>> service to recover the data.
>>
>> If purchasing Server 2008 implies a further cost, then try using
>> Shared Drives without the WHS interface.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Balraj
>>
>> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Jamie Bennett"
<jamie.bennett@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Rob Iles
<rob.iles@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Probably the last thing on your mind - - but WHEN you get
it
>>>>
>> sorted, I'd be
>>
>>>> interested to know how - I'm getting ready for a WHS setup
at
>>>>
>> home, and this
>>
>>>> is the 1st horror story I've come across.
>>>>
>>> Can I be the first to say Ubuntu Server Edition with NFS?
>>>
>>> (I'll get my coat)
>>>
>>>
>>>> R.
>>>>
>>> Jamie
>>>
>>>
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