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timbosan: So, there are TWO SEPARATE things here:I have received my WHS 2011 software. I see you said you have 2 3TB disks . I have been reading forums and they say WHS 2011 only supports 2TB. Is there a way around that since you have 3TB backing up to a 2TB drive.
I currently run Windows 8 64bit on my laptop (Samsung Series 9) with the connector to my WHS 2011 server, with daily backups. I also have the server backing up to an external 2TB drive.
If you want to get a bit more paranoid about backups, you can buy Cloudberry for WHS, which allows backup of data to Amazon S3. I have this too, but only for really important stuff.
Any more questions just ask and I will see if I can help.
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Gilco2:timbosan: So, there are TWO SEPARATE things here:I have received my WHS 2011 software. I see you said you have 2 3TB disks . I have been reading forums and they say WHS 2011 only supports 2TB. Is there a way around that since you have 3TB backing up to a 2TB drive.
I currently run Windows 8 64bit on my laptop (Samsung Series 9) with the connector to my WHS 2011 server, with daily backups. I also have the server backing up to an external 2TB drive.
If you want to get a bit more paranoid about backups, you can buy Cloudberry for WHS, which allows backup of data to Amazon S3. I have this too, but only for really important stuff.
Any more questions just ask and I will see if I can help.
timbosan:Okay thanks. I thought I would have to stay with 2TB drives and not be able to use 3TB or $TB drives.Gilco2:timbosan: So, there are TWO SEPARATE things here:I have received my WHS 2011 software. I see you said you have 2 3TB disks . I have been reading forums and they say WHS 2011 only supports 2TB. Is there a way around that since you have 3TB backing up to a 2TB drive.
I currently run Windows 8 64bit on my laptop (Samsung Series 9) with the connector to my WHS 2011 server, with daily backups. I also have the server backing up to an external 2TB drive.
If you want to get a bit more paranoid about backups, you can buy Cloudberry for WHS, which allows backup of data to Amazon S3. I have this too, but only for really important stuff.
Any more questions just ask and I will see if I can help.
As long as your motherboard can support the drive, or you have a controller card for it, Windows will work fine. However the backup in the WHS console only support drives up to 2tb. The way around this is to use the Windows Backup program. I just selected the folders on my 3tb drive I wanted to backup, not the whole drive, and it works fine.
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Gilco2:timbosan:Okay thanks. I thought I would have to stay with 2TB drives and not be able to use 3TB or $TB drives.Gilco2:timbosan: So, there are TWO SEPARATE things here:I have received my WHS 2011 software. I see you said you have 2 3TB disks . I have been reading forums and they say WHS 2011 only supports 2TB. Is there a way around that since you have 3TB backing up to a 2TB drive.
I currently run Windows 8 64bit on my laptop (Samsung Series 9) with the connector to my WHS 2011 server, with daily backups. I also have the server backing up to an external 2TB drive.
If you want to get a bit more paranoid about backups, you can buy Cloudberry for WHS, which allows backup of data to Amazon S3. I have this too, but only for really important stuff.
Any more questions just ask and I will see if I can help.
As long as your motherboard can support the drive, or you have a controller card for it, Windows will work fine. However the backup in the WHS console only support drives up to 2tb. The way around this is to use the Windows Backup program. I just selected the folders on my 3tb drive I wanted to backup, not the whole drive, and it works fine.
berman002: Here is my Home server setup,
Just an old HP workstation in SSF format Core2 due 6300, 4G of Ram with add-in 6570 Card.
Storage: 1TB, 3TB, 500G and 4TB.
TV Tuner Card.
Window 8 ent with Media Center.
no Raid, i want my HD to work in any system (i do not understand why we need a Raid setup for share server other then RAID1 for less then 10 users)
RAID 1 just a mirror disk(s)
i have second copy of files i need backup. which only 30% of my data, so save me 70% of space for RAID1.
This server is an access point for all files and data.
it also a Media Center for my home use.
which work really well
So if you give up Raid setup, it will be much easier, and software RAID is not that fast, if you need speed.
if you need redundancy, any backup solution will do for you.
put this in mind too, in RAID 1 setup, if one hard disk has corrupted data, it will mirror to the second disk as well.
berman002:TwoSeven: I'm also looking into building a new home server. After using WHS, am leaning towards the Windows Server Essentials route (hopefully). The main reasons are that I want to use some of the server technologies such as Active Directory and Group Policy.
Am looking at using Gigabyte Mini-Itx board (for wifi and dual onboard ethernet). Will likely put the OS on an SDD and mirror a couple of SATA drives for a working directory.
I like the idea of using iSCSI and a NAS as well, and am still on the conceptualisation on how I might make use of it If I were to build such a unit.
lol we got two old netapp 3040 in the office here, may be you can take home and use it as your NAS hahahaha
just joking. your power bill will be up to roof.
so how many users there will be? use AD and GPO at home is a nice idea but it will be unnecessarily complicate your setup.
you can give it a try and have some fun for it. but you will give up in time.
if you want to use iSCS Mini-ITX broad is out of the equation, unless you want to have a separate NAS box most M-ITX broad only come with 4 SATA port. i was looking for one in the past for over 6 ports, but no luck.
by the way most NAS is slower then your actual computer. your ITX mini pc with i3 CPU transfer speed will be much faster then most NAS. they use special OS to run, mostly linux base. but still not as fast as your low end pc.
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TwoSeven:berman002:TwoSeven: I'm also looking into building a new home server. After using WHS, am leaning towards the Windows Server Essentials route (hopefully). The main reasons are that I want to use some of the server technologies such as Active Directory and Group Policy.
Am looking at using Gigabyte Mini-Itx board (for wifi and dual onboard ethernet). Will likely put the OS on an SDD and mirror a couple of SATA drives for a working directory.
I like the idea of using iSCSI and a NAS as well, and am still on the conceptualisation on how I might make use of it If I were to build such a unit.
lol we got two old netapp 3040 in the office here, may be you can take home and use it as your NAS hahahaha
just joking. your power bill will be up to roof.
so how many users there will be? use AD and GPO at home is a nice idea but it will be unnecessarily complicate your setup.
you can give it a try and have some fun for it. but you will give up in time.
if you want to use iSCS Mini-ITX broad is out of the equation, unless you want to have a separate NAS box most M-ITX broad only come with 4 SATA port. i was looking for one in the past for over 6 ports, but no luck.
by the way most NAS is slower then your actual computer. your ITX mini pc with i3 CPU transfer speed will be much faster then most NAS. they use special OS to run, mostly linux base. but still not as fast as your low end pc.
I have been working with LDAP and A/D for quite a few decades, I am sure I know what I am doing with it - LOL :)
Question, why would you want to use iSCSI for disks installed in the actual server?
HTPC Intel Pentium G3258 cpu, Gigabyte H97n-wifi motherboard, , 8GB DDR3 ram, onboard graphics. Hauppuage HVR 5500 tuner, Silverstone LC16M case, Windows 10 pro 64 bit using Nextpvr and Kodi
HTPC Intel Pentium G3258 cpu, Gigabyte H97n-wifi motherboard, , 8GB DDR3 ram, onboard graphics. Hauppuage HVR 5500 tuner, Silverstone LC16M case, Windows 10 pro 64 bit using Nextpvr and Kodi
HTPC Intel Pentium G3258 cpu, Gigabyte H97n-wifi motherboard, , 8GB DDR3 ram, onboard graphics. Hauppuage HVR 5500 tuner, Silverstone LC16M case, Windows 10 pro 64 bit using Nextpvr and Kodi
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