Comments on: Windows Home Server Build http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/ A Frustrating Journey Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ray http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-16023 Ray Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:44:18 +0000 http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-16023 @Matt - My server can't do the Mac time capsule thing. I'm not aware of any available add-ins that will do it for a home build (but I haven't looked very hard), I think HP rolled their own and it's closed source. As for RAID, it's not used or really recommended for Windows home server. The motherboard does support RAID according to the specs but I've never tried it. WHS handles that and uses file duplication to duplicate files across physical hard drives. Kind of like mirroring but at the file level so you can have three disks and the files will be spread out. Duplication is also optional and done at the share level but I use it for everything. The one place where RAID would make sense is the system drive since there's no file duplication on the system drive, although I haven't tried that. In my setup if the system drive fails the server is dead. Thanks for the comment, Ray @Matt – My server can't do the Mac time capsule thing. I'm not aware of any available add-ins that will do it for a home build (but I haven't looked very hard), I think HP rolled their own and it's closed source. As for RAID, it's not used or really recommended for Windows home server. The motherboard does support RAID according to the specs but I've never tried it. WHS handles that and uses file duplication to duplicate files across physical hard drives. Kind of like mirroring but at the file level so you can have three disks and the files will be spread out. Duplication is also optional and done at the share level but I use it for everything. The one place where RAID would make sense is the system drive since there's no file duplication on the system drive, although I haven't tried that. In my setup if the system drive fails the server is dead.

Thanks for the comment,

Ray

]]> By: Matt http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-16020 Matt Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:21:21 +0000 http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-16020 Hi - cool rig. I have the HP MediaSmart EX490, with 2 TB drives in each bay which maxes it out unless I start going external, but I think I'd like to build my own with more processing power so I can stream 1080p MKV files to my PS3 using the server, the current server studders running the on-the-fly transcoding software. The HP has the ability to become a Time Capsule for using Mac's built-in time machine, does the rig you built support this also? Also, I noticed the motherboard you picked didn't seem to list RAID support, I admit I'm a little under-versed as to how the OS combines all the drives into one big space and then does file duplication in case one of the HD's fail. Does the board need RAID support or does Windows Home Server just handle all that? I use mine mostly as a repository for TV shows and movie rips and those blu ray rips are memory hogs since I like to keep the quality high and the lossless (DTS-HD Mst or Dolby TrueHD) audio tracks (talking 20-30GB per movie). I have a separate computer hooked to my HDTV via HDMI that pulls from the media server. I also use it for making backups of all the house computers and as a time machine backup for my MBP. Thanks! Hi – cool rig. I have the HP MediaSmart EX490, with 2 TB drives in each bay which maxes it out unless I start going external, but I think I'd like to build my own with more processing power so I can stream 1080p MKV files to my PS3 using the server, the current server studders running the on-the-fly transcoding software. The HP has the ability to become a Time Capsule for using Mac's built-in time machine, does the rig you built support this also? Also, I noticed the motherboard you picked didn't seem to list RAID support, I admit I'm a little under-versed as to how the OS combines all the drives into one big space and then does file duplication in case one of the HD's fail. Does the board need RAID support or does Windows Home Server just handle all that? I use mine mostly as a repository for TV shows and movie rips and those blu ray rips are memory hogs since I like to keep the quality high and the lossless (DTS-HD Mst or Dolby TrueHD) audio tracks (talking 20-30GB per movie). I have a separate computer hooked to my HDTV via HDMI that pulls from the media server. I also use it for making backups of all the house computers and as a time machine backup for my MBP. Thanks!

]]> By: links for 2009-03-24 - graemef.com http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14266 links for 2009-03-24 - graemef.com Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:00:33 +0000 http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14266 [...] Windows Home Server Build The Windows Home Server itself doesn’t need a lot of high-end hardware. For my needs I just need lots of disk and gigabit Ethernet. Here’s what I came up with… (tags: whs) [...] [...] Windows Home Server Build The Windows Home Server itself doesn’t need a lot of high-end hardware. For my needs I just need lots of disk and gigabit Ethernet. Here’s what I came up with… (tags: whs) [...]

]]> By: WHS es sinonimo de mucho espacio! at WHS.rd http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14256 WHS es sinonimo de mucho espacio! at WHS.rd Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:30:15 +0000 http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14256 [...] HomeServerHacks (que ahora es de 10 devido a algunas dificultades). Otro post que leo hoy sobre un WHS con 12TB, este tiene pocas imagenes o mejor dicho ninguna pero tiene los enlaces de las partes usadas para [...] [...] HomeServerHacks (que ahora es de 10 devido a algunas dificultades). Otro post que leo hoy sobre un WHS con 12TB, este tiene pocas imagenes o mejor dicho ninguna pero tiene los enlaces de las partes usadas para [...]

]]> By: ray http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14255 ray Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:23:22 +0000 http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14255 @Michel - Hi Michel, the server is working fine. It's been running constantly since it was built. Only down time was for patches. I mainly use if for streaming and file storage. Streaming is fine and file copies are too. I currently have file duplication enabled for everything since I have the space and no problems there either. Including file duplication, backups, OS, the total disk usage is 9.4TB @Michel – Hi Michel, the server is working fine. It's been running constantly since it was built. Only down time was for patches. I mainly use if for streaming and file storage. Streaming is fine and file copies are too. I currently have file duplication enabled for everything since I have the space and no problems there either. Including file duplication, backups, OS, the total disk usage is 9.4TB

]]> By: Michel Derome http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14254 Michel Derome Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:58:58 +0000 http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14254 Good day as you system as been built since February 4 2009, how it the 12 TB windows home server working now as of today 13 Mar 2009 ? I am very interested by your journey in that 12 TB Windows Home Server. I was looking in the market for a MB that would have the MOBO certify windows server 2003 but I can't find them here in Canada for consumer, it seem that only big corporation and institution could get their hands on them. It just that I am worry with that XP drivers mixed with a Windows Server 2003 environment; your tought please. Thank you and btw great article. Michel Good day as you system as been built since February 4 2009, how it the 12 TB windows home server working now as of today 13 Mar 2009 ?

I am very interested by your journey in that 12 TB Windows Home Server.

I was looking in the market for a MB that would have the MOBO certify windows server 2003 but I can't find them here in Canada for consumer, it seem that only big corporation and institution could get their hands on them.

It just that I am worry with that XP drivers mixed with a Windows Server 2003 environment; your tought please.

Thank you and btw great article.

Michel

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]]> By: 12 TB Windows Home Server Build List « MS Windows Home Server http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14217 12 TB Windows Home Server Build List « MS Windows Home Server Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:40:52 +0000 http://www.theosquest.com/2009/02/03/windows-home-server-build/#comment-14217 [...] Read about it here. [...] [...] Read about it here. [...]

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