Mike

Mike

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12 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - Competition Time: Win ... · 0 replies · +2 points

I do like WGS but I lost the will to enter the competition after task one ...

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - KB2385637: Windows Hom... · 0 replies · +2 points

I jumpered the drive :-)

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - KB2385637: Windows Hom... · 2 replies · +1 points

I had issues when I installed a WD EARS in my server - not a situation that I would like to repeat ...

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - Win a HP ProLiant Micr... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm in ... usually I don't go for competitions that require FB etc but what the heck - it's a nice prize :-)

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - A Fresh Look at Storag... · 0 replies · +1 points

Just another disappointed user and supporter of WHS v1 who will not be upgrading to Vail.

WHS v1 and Win 7 will hold me for a decent amount of time and hopefully the alternatives will be stable / mature / not too complex to use / troubleshoot.

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - A Fresh Look at Storag... · 0 replies · +1 points

The whole point of FD for me was to make things easy if a drive failed - remove bad drive - insert new drive and have drive pool rebuilt, and you data back as it was before ...

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - HP Pulls Out of the Wi... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is bad news for the future of WHS for sure. For now I will happily let WHS v1 run while I start to look at alternatives. It will have to be something good for me to build a new system and migrate my data - and I don't mind waiting to do that. So far I have Amahi, unRaid and Nexenta on my short list. If Microsoft can pull Vail out of the fire and deliver a compelling product I don't mind waiting for that. I'm not ready to throw the baby out with the bath water just yet ... especially as Greyhole (the DE feature in Amahi is still in Beta) and Nexenta Community Edition has a 12Tb limit ...

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - Ballmer Set to "Look I... · 2 replies · +3 points

You might not miss DE Hulk but you are clearly in the minority.

Recording an hour of .wtv from media center is over 6GB. Add to that DVDs or BluRay and footage from a HD camcorder plus photos and music and the TBs quickly add up ...

Remember this: "640K is more memory than anyone will ever need" - it is silly to predict how much storage the average user may or may not need ...

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - Ballmer Set to "Look I... · 0 replies · +1 points

The whole point of DE is so that you do not have to bother with RAID at all. DE in WHS means that users who do not know what RAID is can easily manage their home server and add and remove storage.

DE for me is not about chucking any old disk into my storage pool but allowing me to grow it without hassle. With DE I can remove any drive from the pool and read data from it on another computer - I can't do that with a RAID system ...

With DE you could simply use your 2 x 1TB plus the new disks that you bought rather than have to fiddle with RAID to increase your storage ...

13 years ago @ We Got Served - Connec... - Ballmer Set to "Look I... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Terry - it will surely be very interesting to see if anything transpires from this!