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re: My Windows Home Server

Jamie Akers — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:32:24 GMT

You may wish to look into external USB laptop hard drives. They are powered by USB and not by mains power. Obviously more expensive but may be cheaper than a full fledged UPS unit. It's down to how long your power outages last for and how much you want to spend.

re: My Windows Home Server

jaybaz_MS — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:42:38 GMT

That's an interesting idea, thanks!

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Timbojones — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:25:58 GMT

I recently picked up an ethernet hard drive: http://www.hammer-storage.com/products/myshare.asp. There have been some issues with getting Windows to store the authentication information and automatically map shares at boot time, but in general it works very well.

re: My Windows Home Server

jaybaz_MS — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:23:22 GMT

Tim, you should check out WHS. It's is one of the coolest things Microsoft has done a in while. If you want to build your own, send me an email.

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J Ostrus — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:59:25 GMT

Quite an interesting idea, the cheap laptop to be the server heh. I might just do that for my second one. I was wondering if you might have any thoughts on redundancy as I didn't see an easy way to utilize the Raid5 capability of the Windows Server platform even though it is capable with WHS. When doing an add hard drive with the menu it doesn't give such options however doing it manually in the disk management mmc it creates a new drive letter that doesn't seem to be usable by the WHS backup services. Do you know of any drawbacks of using this vs a hardware raid solution. I wanted to to this so I can mix my sata and pata drives since i have quite a few that are all the same size, as well as not have to worry about the rare chance the controller goes bad and I can't get the same thing to replace it and then I have a stack of drives with redundant data but no way to read them. That way I could just pop them into another machine or on another motherboard or something if needed to get back up incase of such failure. Of course there's always having to make a backup of the WHS os partition but thats easily remedied. This was actually the main reason I considered WHS since the process I used previously involved Acronis TrueImage with an XP Pro pseudo server to store the image files on a shared network folder with a heavy password.

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jaybaz_MS — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:11:23 GMT

Ostrus: I would avoid using RAID on WHS, and let WHS do its own disk management. Also, I would caution against logging on to a WHS machine, and instead managing it through the Home Server Console.