RE: Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Basically the Mac Mini solution was getting unwieldy ... too many
noisy
external drive boxes, too many cables looping in and out of too many
bridgeboards and given that I'd had to sell the house (one of the few
downsides of shedding the missus) I just didn't have the room for that
solution any more. I also wanted to go gigabit (the old Mac Mini didn't
have
Gigabit) and I also wanted to go for SATA / eSATA rather than firewire.

I *HAVE* however been considering whether it's possible to get the old Mac
Mini based solution up and running again as it did work so damn well ...

I think I've found what's caused the problem with WHS though ... I'm
guessing it's a bug but I can add 1Tb drives to the nForce SATA controller
that's built into my motherboard with no problems but as soon as I add more
than one 1Tb drive to the Marvel controller that's built into the
motherboard (and remember all these 1Tb drives are the same make and model)
then WHS thinks that the previous 1Tb drive has failed and marks it as
unavailable. :-(

*sigh*

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Wayne
> Sent: 16 December 2008 17:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!
>
> 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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