Re: Giving up on WHS- looking for a FAST/BIG network media storage solution

["keyvan2r" <k1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not stupid at all! My first thoughts were network issues.
I even bought an Intel PCIe server NIC and running that in tandem with the
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onboard nic - both at 1Gb (or at least that's what the network connection
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tatus tells me on the WHS RDP)- still no help...

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Martin Howell <martin.howell@...> wrote:
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> This may be a stoopid suggestion but I had similar stuttering
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> with one of my servers, turned out to be the network card which was
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> to 100Mb full duplex, changing it to auto negotiate cured the
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> No, I don't know why either.
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> Martin
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> keyvan2r wrote:
> > Hi all
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> > Last year I decided to build a windows home server box to house
my coll=
ection of movies & blu-rays - 5.5Tb(2x 2tb hitachi, 1x 1.5TB WD, 550Mb
WD S=
ystem drive. I have around 450 DVD's and 100 BD's.
> >>From the start I had performance issues with WHS box. It is a
high spec=
machine with quality components. The streaming of movies is very slow, I a=
lmost always get stopping, stutter and skipping with BD and often with
DVD.=
I also always have to rip to a local disk and copy the folder over to serv=
er. The copy process is also often really slow and invloves a number of
tim=
e-out errors (retry button).
> > I tried rebuilding the machine, bought an adaptec 4 port pci-e
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er. Turned off all file duplication. I have read about issues re DE
Migrato=
r, but I can not see why it is soooo slow!=20
> > I am now at a point where I need to look at an alternative
solution.
> > unRaid from Lime tech seems to be the best one so far. It has
"user sha=
res" which can span multiple drives thus giving the "big
disk" feature whic=
h I get from WHS - plus it offers a single disk failure protection. I use
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yMovies/WMC for my client pc's for media managment / playback - their
versi=
on for WHS was another driver to choose WHS. I keep DVD's in Video_ts
folde=
rs and BD's as ISO. I have dabbled with Cinemar's DVDLobby and Plex. Might
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look at DVDLobby again now that 3.9 with on-screen display (as in
Kaleidesc=
ape)- I prefer that method of browsing titles to the touch screen...
> > Obviously I have to build this in addition to the existing WHS in
order=
to copy the data (all 4.8 tb!). This is the set of components I am conside=
ring:
> > Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H
> > 2 Gb Corsair XMS3 Dominator DDR3=20
> > AMD Athlon II X2 250
> > Coolermaster RC-590
> > 450W Corsair CMPSU-450HXUK, Modular
> > 3x 2TB Hitachi Saturn
> > This comes to around =A3600. Plus $120 for the unRaid OS on USB.
> > Before I go ahead, just wanted to get some advice / input from
the foru=
m to see if anyone can give me a pros/cons or alternate solution to
conside=
r. Clearly the major drawback of moving from WHS is that I would need a
ded=
icated extra pc (like a basic XP Pro box) to manage the database (MyMovies
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or Lobby server)as unRaid would just be a NAS with no app capability, but
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f I can not get whs to stream or have files copied to it easily, then I
hav=
e no other choice.
> > Thank you in advance for your kind input..
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