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By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:38:07 +0000

What HDDs are you now using?

By: twhcreations

twhcreations — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:22:22 +0000

Have you totally dropped this? I have been running a WHS box for 18 months now, recenly i had a 500Gb HDD fail (previously 2 x Samsung 500Gb hdd’s), i decided with my usage going up and how the unit had been very stable i would upgrade the drives to 2 x 1.5Tb WD drives.
Well since re-installing and recoving the data from a back up. I have been experienceing huge ammounts of lag. the only thing that has changed in the unit is the HDD’s. I am searching for a solution as well. The one new message that is happening is i have a warning on boot that a driver failed to load on boot, upon searching the fault list it is near impossible to identify the driver at fault. (My thinking is the HDD drivers?)

By: Doug Strahm

Doug Strahm — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:42 +0000

Christoph,
In your closing remarks you mention looking into hosting Pamela apps on WHS. Has anything been done in this area?

I’d like to move some of the owrkload from my client to a server to get the fans to settle down a bit.

Thoughts?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:01:42 +0000

It seems that you did not do proper research first. See the above comment about installing a large drive as the system drive. Google “WHS landing zone”. It’s a known issue.

I do agree about the MSDN subscription, kinda sucks.

I personally have had zero problems with slow network saving. This may be caused by your RAID1 setup.

Also, WHS does NOT like RAID. Period. The WHS team has been very clear about that in their blog. For that matter it does not NEED raid. Oh, and RAID1 may speed up READ access, but is slows down WRITE access (a lot). If you want speed go with RAID0.

“It’s a kind of software raid (stripe).” – Actually it is more like a software JBOD as you can add disks of any size without loosing space.

Kevin

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:32:12 +0000

How would a mirrored raid setup speed things up? I would think it would slow things down if anything. If you had them set up to strip data across the two drives that would speed things up.

On my gigabit network with 5 PCs response time for accessing folders in WHS is only a hair slower then accessing folders on the client machines

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:48:59 +0000

Kind of an apples-to-oranges comparison (Datacenter ’08 vs. WHS). WHS is (for better or for worse) not designed for an office environment. I’m quite happy with the pop-ups – if there’s a problem with things, I find out (no matter who notices it first, wife or kids). The backups & restores work spectacularly well. I have no issues with the shared folders, perhaps you had some other strange issue (like your drive problem)?

By: Jarle Nygård

Jarle Nygård — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:38:14 +0000

You didn’t have to buy the licence, you could’ve downloaded the 120 days trial edition or waited just a little more for whs to be available on MSDN (it’s coming).

The network lag is a serious issue, somebody from the WHS team should look into that asap!

A setup tip from the WHS team is to make sure that the system drive/first drive is the largest. This is recommeded because all files go there and are then distributed. However I’d love to see an option to change this; ie. set another drive as the main “landing drive” for files.

Also it should be possible to set a user as “admin” and by default only that user would see Health notifications from the Connector.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:35:14 +0000

I know that MSDN licenses are not for production use. But before we spend loads of money for production licenses, I always like to test before buying it.
We had to buy WHS licenses and it turned out that it’s not working for us. As explained, we want to develop addins for WHS as well, but we did not get a license from MSDN for software development either.

By: tirer

tirer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:08:18 +0000

Well, as when I purchased MSDN VL through a channel reseller, I was told clearly what to not do, which includs using the software in production environment.

I was told MSDN is only meant for use of test and design.

If they are okay with your way of using it in office, I’d really want to spoil those licenses in my office:)