RE: Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not *QUITE* that simple - you can only mount a drive into an *EMPTY*
directory so if I did it that way I'd have a share of "Movies"
with multiple
subdirectories - not a single directory with all the movies in it (which is
what I was after) - I could manage that on the Mac Mini with a simple
script
that shared a directory which was automatically populated with symbolic
links to the movies - I did try doing this under windows but it didn't work
anywhere near so reliably.

I *MAY* be able to obtain an old G5 PowerMac which will have PCI-X slots in
it and if so then I can throw in a couple of PCI-X to 4 x eSATA cards that
support port multipliers and then be able to hang up to 40 SATA drives off
that which may encourage me to go back to the Mac side - I remain
unconvinced so far about the ability of Windows to provide a stable
domestic
server environment but - give it its dues - WHS *DOES* make a good stab at
making the administration of a home server much more accessible to the
non-geek, remember I'm always going to be pushing these things harder than
maybe they should be pushed simply because I tend to be such a data whore!
:-D

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Richard (lists)
> Sent: 16 December 2008 22:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!
>
> The thing is, you don't need to run out of drive letters, you just
> mount
> drives into directories on the C drive and then share that.
>
>
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Wayne
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:55 AM
> 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
>
>
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