Dude

Member Since 06 Mar 2010
Offline Last Active Feb 27 2013 03:27 PM

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I've been in Technology for 31 years, started life as an assembler program and now I manage large technology iplementations in the Finance Industry, I built my first PC in 1992, it was painful as the internet wasn't anywhere near as pervasive as it is now, drivers and compatability probems where the norm, and lack if information or help for everything. Have built many more PC's over the years, including a HTPC and WHS. I mostly use my main rig for video editing.

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Member Title HSS Pro
Age 54 years old
Birthday August 11, 1958
Gender
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Location
Menangle NSW Australia
Interests
Riding my Harley, camping and 4 Wheel Driving, video editing.

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Web Interface for Rocket Raid 2720 - can't connect

27 October 2012 - 02:08 PM

Hi Guys, once a month I check my Raid integrity by running the Web interface validation. Usually on a Sunday morning after WHS has done its Back-up cleanup.
This morning I tried to launch the interface and got an explorer error cannot display webpage https://localhost 7402/
Any ideas why this has started to happen, the service is running I checked that with the Rocket Raid Service Manager.

WHS2011 wakes up at 6am

14 October 2012 - 02:24 PM

I'm running LIghts Out on my WHS2011, for some reason my Server wakes up at 6:00am every day for 10 minutes then goes back to sleep. I don't have anything set in the Lights out Calendar at that time.
Any ideas on how I can find out what service is running at this time.

Its not causing me a problem, just curious.

Western Digital WD20EARX Drives 2TB

08 March 2012 - 10:22 PM

Do I need to apply the jumper to a WD20EARX drive similar to an EARS drive.

WHS V1 seemed to identify it OK and I added it to my storage pool and it all seemed to work fine.

I don't want any corruptions though so tyhought I would ask.

Window Server 8

04 February 2012 - 02:16 PM

Been tossing up whether to migrate off WHS V1 to WHS 2011, so was interested to hear about the update to Windows Server 8 and it being a replacement / alternative for WHS V2.

Maybe its time to set up a separate forum for all things Server 8.

One of the frustrations I have is streaming HD video from my V1 box to my Lounge TV, sometimes it works flawlessly at other times it stutters, the only thng I can put it down to is the WHS doing some disk activity to maintain the storage pools.

If Server 8 enables flawless streaming of MtS files then I'm jumping on the Beta wagon.

Whats the best option for the OS

17 November 2011 - 03:22 PM

Folks, just planning out a WHS11 build, been listening to the podcasts over the past year or more and have read many posts.

I want to mirror the OS so I appreciate there are 3 primary options use the mobo raid, a dedicated raid card or the icydoc cage.

I have excluded any software raid configurations and am not planning on using any of the DE options.

I'm will purchase a highpoint Raid 2680 card for a raid 5 array of the main storage pool, everyone seems to be very happy with that configuration, so I guess I could set up the OS on a separate array off that card.

Regarding the drive types and size, should I purchase two 2.5inch 200gb laptop drives or should I just purchase 2 * 2TB 3.5 inch drives and partition them so as I can use the extra space for data storage.
Should I look for SATA 3 drives or would sata 2 5400 rpm drives be OK.

The purpose of the WHS is for:-
1) Backing up my home PC's
2) Streaming HD video

What are the considerations for making this decison.

Thanks