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Windows Home Server Add-Ins I Use

March 13, 2010
Thumbnail of the Home Server SMART add-in

I was recently asked what Windows Home Server Add-Ins I us and figured it was a good topic for a blog post. So this morning I took a look and see that I have six loaded. I don’t use a lot of add-ins for two main reasons:

In general I like my important systems to be [...]

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School of Hard (Drive) Knocks – Part 2

February 9, 2010
Scrub those drives clean thumbnail

At the beginning of the month I wrote about my Windows Home Server hard drive problems and at the time I was waiting for WHS to finish removing the bad drive from its storage pool. When I posted the article I was letting Windows Home Server run through the drive removal process while I slept. [...]

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School of Hard (Drive) Knocks

February 2, 2010
Scrub those drives clean thumbnail

One of the problems with having a Windows Home Server with 12 hard drives is that hard drives do fail and there’s a dozen chances for that to happen. Add to that the 18TB of data those drives can hold and things are further complicated. The odds are not in my favor and it’s only [...]

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Yet Another Windows Home Server Disk Upgrade

January 9, 2010
Hard Drive Platter thumbnail

Just last week I wrote that I’d just upgrade the drives in my Windows Home Server as I needed the space, and I really didn’t think I’d need the space for awhile. Well, I copied up a bunch of files and my free space dropped below 2TB which is where I start considering upgrading a [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #47: State of the Quest

January 3, 2010
Happy New Year 2010 Thumbnail

This isn’t one of those year in review or predictions for the year ahead posts. I hate those. But this is the time of year I look at my current computing situation and muse about where I want to go the next year. Not goals, not predictions, just some practical reviews – if I want [...]

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 3

November 25, 2009
WHS Versions

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 was released Tuesday and I’ve applied the upgrade. While I didn’t have any serious problems it didn’t go exactly as planned. Just problems enough to cause some momentary heart palpitations.

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Reviewing My Backup Strategy

October 11, 2009
Single floppy disk

The days of using a few floppy disks to backup important files are long gone. In going through my website I realized that the information about my backup strategy was a bit dated and didn’t reflect how I do things. Going through everything in order to write this article would also help me be sure [...]

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Western Digital 2TB Prices Drop – WHS Grows

June 7, 2009

As hard as it is for me to fathom, my 12TB Windows Home Server grew to 13TB back in April, just two months after the initial build. Now, less than 2 months after that I was running low on disk space again.
When I built the server I figured the disk would last me awhile. [...]

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Windows Home Server Update

April 8, 2009

I figure it’s a good time to post an update about my 12TB Windows Home Server since there’s been a couple of changes and I looked at the power usage over a couple of weeks.
Disk Gone Bad
I started having problems with one of the drives. One of the 1TB Western Digital Green drives started [...]

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 2

March 24, 2009

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 has been released and is in the wild. I installed it on my two Windows Home Servers without incident. The first was my 12TB Windows Home Server , the second was my HP Mediasmart Windows Home Server. Both took only a few minutes, including the reboot.
Both installs went without [...]

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Windows Home Server on MSI Wind Barebones

March 16, 2009

I needed to do some PC work and swapping for my parents. To do this I needed a place to store files and backups. I decided a Windows Home Server was ideal for this although the cost of one would be a problem since the need was temporary. So I looked for a solution [...]

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