New WHS Install with Sagetv

[jorton]

Just wondering if anyone can offer any tips for someone switching over to WHS and Sagetv from XP Home with Sagetv Media Center?

I have decided that WHS will be my home server (need to start backing up data centrally) and hope that Sagetv will still fit in.

I am currently using two PVR500's and two HD-PVR's attached to Motorola 62xx STB's (with firewire channel changing) on a XP Home SP3 machine. I connect using three Sagetv client PC's.

I'd appreciate any tips anyone can offer up with regards to setting up recording space (cluster size 64 seems to be the concensus) or any other words of wisdom.

Just getting ready for the move, good or bad ;o)

Thanks,

Jeremy

[gplasky]

Consult the WHS tutorial in the hardware forum.

Gerry

[jorton]

Thanks Gerry! The one place I didn't look ;o)

Looks exactly like what I was hoping to find.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[othy]

I don't think you'll regret it. I switched over from XP just after WHS was released and I can't imagine ever going back. I'm not always a huge Microsoft fan, but this is their best product (that I've used) in many years. And SageTV is a perfect fit.

If you're planning to keep you wiz.bin and recordings, make sure you do some planning and read up on how to transfer the data. As they say in carpentry, measure twice cut once

Tim

[DMT]

I too went from XP and Vista to Windows Home Server and would never look back -- well maybe depending on what the upcoming SageTV Linux distro looks like!

Numerous advantages to WHS including backups of all you computers on your network and remote access.

You can research advantages/disadvantages to having your SageTV recording drives in the WHS drive 'pool'. I initially went in the the pool but later decided to go outside the pool. I just liked having the flexibility of SageTV recording 64k blocks outside the pool. In the pool I have DVD/BD library, pictures, iTunes, central file storage and backups. You can selectively turn on duplication for redundancy.

[stevech]

so what are the advantages of WHS for Sage, since you chose to not use the disk pooling? Excluding backup - as there are many excellent network backup tools such as SecondCopy and Acronis.

I've long been using XP Pro with a RAID1 disk pair, boot partition + video partition @ 64K blocks.
Run Sage with two tuners plus HomeSeer plus custom home automation software and other goodies. No web surfing or email on that PC, by security rule.

Trouble free. Fast. Cheap.