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Hellstan

Jun 1 2008, 03:06 AM

QUOTE (budjames @ Jun 1 2008, 02:06 AM)

Very true, but as I said, I purchased it for back up for my network, not local storage. I use OWC FW800 raids and single drives for that. I purchased the OWC 2 drive raid enclosure and installed matching Seagate 1TB drives for an effective capacity of 1.8TB. It works great.

Bud

I think I will go for the Sonnet 400. Sonnet France even replied to my mail this morning (sunday), a feat which is unique in the old country.
OWC is not distributed in Europe, so it's trouble in cas of bugs.

feppe

Jun 1 2008, 05:13 AM

QUOTE (jjj @ Dec 7 2007, 07:25 PM)

I just got my hands on the HP EX470 Windows Home Server Box, which has Gigabit ethernet [esssential for such a device, USB lke the DROBO has, is simply not up to the task], a single 500G HD and the option to add 3 more internally plus another four externally via USB and it also has an ESATA connection too. So I intend adding 1TB drives to rack it up to 8TB and that's without using the ESATA.
No point buying the EX475 version as it just has two 500G drives instead of one and I regard 500Gs as too small.

I was ready to install WHS myself, but found out there's a massive bug in it.

I would strongly advice against using Windows Home Server for anything mission critical, or especially as a backup. There's a well-document bug in its implementation, which might or might not be fixed in the coming months.

MS has acknowledge this critical bug and is "working on a solution":

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/...n-us?spid=12624

edit: DarkPenguin beat me to it - but the warning remains...

jjj

Jun 1 2008, 01:08 PM

QUOTE (feppe @ Jun 1 2008, 10:13 AM)

I was ready to install WHS myself, but found out there's a massive bug in it.
.....

From MS
"Microsoft has established that this issue may occur when one of the following programs is used to edit, transfer, and save files to the home server:• Windows Vista Photo Gallery
• Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Money 2007
• SyncToy 2.0 Beta
• Intuit QuickBooks
• uTorrent"

Why would you not be using the WHS software to back up to server? That's what it's for. And then when you want to retrieve someting, then WHS software opens it into your File Browser. In fact I cannot think why I'd use Outlook etc to access WHS. Though obviously some people do.

So maybe just an issue for those who use it oddly!

feppe

Jun 1 2008, 04:21 PM

QUOTE (jjj @ Jun 1 2008, 01:08 PM)

Why would you not be using the WHS software to back up to server? That's what it's for. And then when you want to retrieve someting, then WHS software opens it into your File Browser. In fact I cannot think why I'd use Outlook etc to access WHS. Though obviously some people do.

So maybe just an issue for those who use it oddly!

I think using WHS to store Outlook or torrent files is far from odd usage for a software which is designed to be used by pretty much everyone, and to close the gap between ad hoc backup- and redunancy solutions, and heavy-duty RAID.

I don't even know (or care) what "back up to server" means, and I bet majority of WHS target market doesn't, either. I just want something like Drobo which I don't have to fiddle with, and Just Works. WHS sounded like a nice compromise between Drobo 1.0 (never trust first version of a new tech) and "normal" RAIDs which are a pain.

Hellstan

Jun 1 2008, 04:27 PM

QUOTE (feppe @ Jun 1 2008, 10:21 PM)

WHS sounded like a nice compromise between Drobo 1.0 (never trust first version of a new tech) and "normal" RAIDs which are a pain.

I hate Microsoft solutions, always bugged, period.
I'm on a Mac.
Why RAID solutions are a pain ?
I mean RAID 1 and never ever RAID 0.

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