Comments on: Windows Home Server – Just Build It

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:40:39 +0000

I have used the same chassis for the last 9-12 months with 9 hard drives (4 PATA, 5 SATA). The chassis is not an easy one to remove/add drives to but once they are in there, they operate fine with plenty of air circulation.

I am having a problem with database consistency issues with WHS but I believe that is due to a client machine that frequently chrashes during backups.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:52:01 +0000

Thanks Rob!

By: Rob Tripp

Rob Tripp — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:29:32 +0000

Hey Mike,

Here’s the tutorial…
http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Use-Vista-and-Media-Center-to-make-the-best-digital-DVD-library-EVER/

Rob

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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:46:37 +0000

I don’t think the link to the DVD ripping tutorial you mentioned made it in. Could you post that? I’ve been researching ripping my DVDs to digital to save swapping them for the kids…

Thanks!

By: Rob Tripp

Rob Tripp — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:05:43 +0000

Thanks guys…

Kenneth: No problems yet, but I only have one drive in it and I’m only using the box for backups and DVD Library.

See the microsoft site below for the specifics on what causes the data corruption problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/946676/en-us?spid=12624#appliesto

By: kenneth

kenneth — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:08:20 +0000

Have you had any problems of the dreaded WHS data corruption issue? That’s pretty much the only thing keeping me sticking to TBs worth of external hard drives as opposed to either NAS or a WHS setup… it’s the most cost effective and logical route to data backup (and even serving media at home) but I can’t get over the ‘what if’ factor surrounding WHS. Or has a fix been released and I’ve missed it?

By: Ecks

Ecks — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:44:01 +0000

Right on.
I used the exact same case to make a WHS box.
Definitely a sweet case for expansion.
Cheers.

Ecks

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:47:45 +0000

Great post, and a great job on The Beast …