Last week I finally broke down and ordered WHS and a few components to convert my XP Pro server to WHS. This was mainly due to the posts and tutorials that SME has put up on these forums. I was running a JBOD stripped set on XP Pro. Loosing all recording was not a big deal but I was starting to rip my DVD collection to H264 which represents a large investment in time. So last weekend I spent the 20 hours to get everything migrated to WHS using pooled drives formatted at 64k blocks using SME tutorial.
It was a well timed move. Yesterday my wife complained about stuttering and we had trouble watching a few shows last night. After she went to bed I was tweaking with the system assuming it was SageMC which I had just moved to, but continued to encounter problems with the stock STV. Low and behold I look at the server and notice network critical, back up server not running. Looking further at the server it turns out one of my 500gb hard drives was starting to fail. This drive had 300gb of recordings on it! After rebooting the server I was able to have WHS migrate everything off this drive and only lost one show, and to boot none of my rips where ever in jeopardy because they had folder duplication turned on.
For those considering why using pooled drives is good I think this is a great example. I didn't loose any disk space and at least had a chance at protecting WAF.
Thanks!
02-04-2009, 08:27 AM
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