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I've got WHS setup with 500gb, 400gb & 320gb drives in it, on an Opteron 150 with 1gb RAM. I am still finding that it spends a lot of time balancing its storage. To the extent that it affects the performance of streaming.
Wouldn't it be much better off being a hardware RAID setup, so there is no balancing? I think I'm definitely heading down this track soon to compare.
Problem:
Still having issues with backups completing on the Vista HP, but the machine not being realeased to sleep. When I check what's going on, I find it says it's backing up and I view status to find it's at 100%, but not being "let go".
Interesting. And people were poking me for suggesting that a bit more than HPs low specd rig would be better
I have noticed similar backup glitches only since swithcing to RTM....lolz...I wonder whats going on....
The other stuff is going OK...I have been otherwise stress testing it with alot of bi-directional traffic, wired and wireless....otherwise OK.
What's funny though, the lady of the manor is now saying she'd like an MCE in the bedroom, since Im likely to put my 27" LCD TV up on the wall(formerly my pc monitor)
This means the WHS rig will get converted to a Vista rig and I might explore the world of RAID to accomodate my 3x750GB drives. Of course I lose backup functionality...but thems the breaks until I decide I can afford to build another WHS rig...lolz....women - always messin up best laid plans!!
I had WHS installed for quite a while and found it to be always balancing and slow.
This was my experience and might just of been my setup, a p4 3.0 cpu and 1 gig memory and a couple of 500 gig drives and a smaller one for the OS. (I have since found out the that maybe putting the OS on a smaller drive is not the best config)
Played with Freenas for a little while but ended up putting WinXP on it and haven't looked back since.
Transfer speeds are much better and also logging onto the server with remote desktop is much more responsive.
I have set up the drives as separate units as I figure if I lose one drive at least all the other stuff is safe.
Added another 2 500 gig drives as well now and its running full steam ahead. Fingers crossed
You can still do the backups other ways, as long as your ex WHS machine/server is running at the time. In Acronis True Image you can schedule backups etc.
If I went in the Linux direction for my server, I'd be using this method, backing up to the server.
The backup problem was identified in the CTP version, but it is still happening for me. You can use the old connector software with RC1, as I had to remove & intall the new connector, so that's not the problem.
The only thing I do extra on this machine, is run DVB Webscheduler recording to the UNC path.
@ circuit,
I'm very tempted to try SME Server first, to see what it's like, but at the end of the day, it will probably be a Ubuntu or Suse 10.2 linux box with Mythtv doing all the recording. I will more than likely buy 2 more 500gb Samsungs and setup a RAID 5 and use the others as single disks for recorded TV etc.
Thanks Lester. Yeah, I do have Acronis....although backups arent really a huge issue for me atm. It all depends on what the taxman gives me as a refund....if I get the $$$ for the 30" monitor I want then the above plan is full steam ahead... Im probably using an IR extender or a logitech harmony 390 to control it(with the receiver being in another room)
sigh, I always amaze myself at the frequency of ways I find to squander more $$$ on PC gear I keep saying, "once I finish this project THATS IT!!" of course, right when the project is almost finished, I start scheming another cash consuming adventure .... bleh!
That's pretty standard for the Core 2's though. I was aiming at 3.2ghz with my RAM being DDR-800, but 400 FSB would cause the odd freeze when running at 100%, so I settled for 390. I remember my old Celeron 300A
On the WHS front, I think it will get the flick after another month.
I keep saying, "once I finish this project THATS IT!!" of course, right when the project is almost finished, I start scheming another cash consuming adventure .... bleh!
I remember the shop where he bought it guaranteed 450MHz or your money back.
