Christopher (Drashna)

Hey, thanks for the reply!
 
I think the hardest part so far is FINDING these files!   The recycle bin is empty.   Not sure where do look...
 
Once I find them, I can probably delete them (I've been resetting permissions on my pool most of the day, I created some problems making and switching accounts trying to get OneDrive to work)...
 
SO nice to have this resource when you need it!  

WHS2011 so .vhd files, not vhdx unfortunately. I'll check for a while but overall. In two weeks my WD Red Backup HDD is up in the roster, I'll take a look at that as well and compare. So far, I am happy. They may not be the best write-performers due to SMR (still unsure) but they get the backup job done it seems, I can grow my server to about 8TB in unduplicated backupable data at low cost and they read like crazy.
 
It is a ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z and the ID number is J1PO37PU

Are you also running Scanner?  I have DP running on both machines, with Scanner on both machines as well. Makes me feel safer anyway.

Most likely, you need to allow remote management of the event viewer. 
This link should help.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server_core/archive/2008/01/14/configuring-the-firewall-for-remote-management-of-a-workgroup-server-core-installation.aspx
This is EXACTLY what you're looking for, and it covers MORE than just the event viewer. It should cover EVERYTHING that exists in the Computer Management console, which is even better.
 
Personally, I went and set up a group policy for this on my domain, so I don't have to do anything ever again.

thank you for the info... just wanted to make sure I didn't do anything wrong with setup.. guess my system is set for a long while now

This server is a BEAST lol xeon 1246-v3 = fast fast o and did I mention fast

Congrats! And yes, that is one hell of a machine.

Firstly. Thanks for the prompt and informative reply. As many others have said, customer service here is amazing, and although I haven't needed to get in touch much, now that I do need some assistance, you are right here waiting
 
Had one other question whilst I'm preparing for my system migration to start
 
Assuming I'll just build my new WHS 2011 box and then install DrivePool and insert disks and boom! I'm there. But re DrivePool. Which version should I install. As I'm running WHS2011 and was with you from the start, I am currently running V1. Does it make sense to move straight to V2 as I may need that eventually anyway.
 
If I install V2 and just stick my v1 disks in will that work. Or would I need to switch to V2 on existing box first. I'm not sure if individual drives are tagged by the system or if it's purely a directory structure constructed on the system drive.
 
Thanks again in advance.
 
Jon

I'm starting to see 500GB SSDs for $199. That's pretty amazing. Certainly not as cheap as spinny drives, and not necessary for streaming movies, but they are getting cheap(ish).

my abosolute longterm goal is a 25 drive setup (1 for os and 24 for drivepool) lol guess im liking the idea of collecting storage drives.

Hi Chris check out xcase.co.uk i got my cases from there and they have been Brilliant my setup is listed in the my rackmount section on here.

...to the Stablebit team. Recently discovered DrivePool and Scanner, and it's basically solved all my storage problems in one go. I had my disks in RAID arrays (RAID 0+1), which was a costly way of doing things! I have two main PCs - an HTPC and my personal one. I got the DrivePool+Scanner combo for both after testing DrivePool for the trial period on my virtual machine box (a ProxMox 3.3 machine).
I have lots of unused 320GB, 500GB drives that just aren't suitable for RAID (size mismatch, manufacturer, speed etc), and DrivePool is going to make them usable!
 
Now looking to put together a new build using DrivePool to fit more drives in to my media server. Currently got 3x4TB drives in the HTPC (was 2 in RAID mirror), but no room for more so it's got to move as my media collection seems to be growing exponentially, thanks to my GoPro and storing my Blurays as straight copy MKVs at 24-40GB per movie. Looking around at various hardware before committing to a case. But it will be such a money saver being able to slot in any HDD I have going spare when I need a bit more space.
 
So a big thank you for you guys - you've made things so much easier and I can concentrate on the hardware I want rather than worry about how to manage the data security. Already got a friend to buy the combo too, and he's just as pleased after struggling with storage solutions - especially having recently lost a 2TB drive that wasn't duplicated... ouch.
 
 

Ah yes, as an OS drive, it may well do horrible. So that leaves defragmentation and temp storage. But defrag is something that should be doable in the background, suspending in case of real I/O, I guess the FW may also do something while idle, a bit like TRIM on SSDs. E.g. writing new data to clean bundles of tracks and then re-organising when idle. Anyway, one I finally get them I'll see (and tell) how well they do as backup drives.

not missing your other points but he said other than for databases.     I'm hopeful though that a media server will be not so write intensive to be a big deal but i got my 2nd paycheck today so have ordered the parts for this server will try the 8tb in a future expansion perhaps but for now i'm happy.  i had a few more family members say they would want access to the plex server so i went ahead and got an i5-4590.  my father decided that since a few family members wanted access he would pay the difference to upgrade it so it could handle an additional transcode or 2

This is an issue with the Windows Home server installer.... It fails to roll back properly when there is an issue (at least in the dashboard).
 
Please uninstall the Add-In, and then reinstall it. This will ensure you're on the proper version (you're stuck on 2.4 right now).
If needed, uninstall it from the control panel first, then uninstall it from the Add-Ins section in the dashboard.

getting xeon 1246v3, Gigabyte GA-Z97MX Gaming 5 micro atx mobo, 3 4way startech power splitters for sata power, 1 artic silver 5 thermal compound, 1 aric silver articlean thermal material remover and surface purifier, 1 set Gskill Trident 2x8GB ddr 3 1600 ram..1 WD 6TB hard drive.
 
with 3 day ship and rush processing should have it by Wednesday or Thursday... cant wait...

duelistjp, those 8TB seagates are not called "Archive" for nothing. The thing with these is that re-writing a sector may cause more sectors to have to be re-written. That's due to the SMR tech in these. I will get 2 soon but I intend to use those as backup drives, not actual server storage. On the other hand, the data on my server is mostly static anyway so it could well do the job. I'd just hate to have, say, a larger database on those.

Well, I'm sorry to hear about the power outage and the other issues....
 
BUt i'm glad to hear that the new installation seems to be working fine though!
 
As for reinstalling.... if Windows 10 system has the "create system image" option, you could use that. It would give you a clean point to restore to if something goes wrong.

If you have your drives mapped with drive letters you can run the following script (say daily) to have it generate a file list per drive and place in DropBox:
 
@echo off set dropbox=C:\Users\SomeUser\Dropbox\DrivePoolContent\ for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO (   if exist %%i: (     dir %%i:\ /ahs /s /b  > "%dropbox%\FileList_%%i.txt" 2> nul   ) )   If you don't want to assign driveletters you can also mount all your disks under a single mount point instead of drive letters (say C:\PoolDisks\) and just dir that folder.

I've been waiting patiently for Filesafe.  If anything happens to my family photos, I'm afraid of what my wife may do to me.  But I'm sure you guys will hear about it in the news. 

Since you asked, I'll add to the thread even though it is not a rack mount system. 
 
Case - Rosewill Blackbone - http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Steel-Plastic-Computer-Blackbone/dp/B004A9XB6W
PSU - Seasonic 80+ Platinum 460w, fanless (I wanted as low power use as I could get)
CPU - AMD Athlon II X4 610e, 45w TPD  Had to upgrade last week, now is a Phenom II X6 1090T, more on that at the end of post.
Cooler - I don't remember, I built this thing several years ago. It's huge and the giant fan is quiet.
Memory - 8GB (I don't really care about brands, it's Corsair though I think)
OS - WHS 2011
NICs - using an Intel Pro gigabit for the network, onboard Realtek gigabit for video cameras
Drives:
1x Hitachi 500GB boot drive
1x WDS WD5000AAKS - boot backup drive, and yes it's PATA
2x Samsung ST32000542AS 2GB
1x WD WD30EZRX 3GB (Yes, that's a green drive, and it's been solid as a rock)
1X ST3000DM001 3GB (yes it's been replaced once)
 
No, it's nothing special, but it works for what I'm running on it.
MediaBrowser Server 3
BlueIris 4 controlling 8 3MP cameras
Plex
Subsonic Server
SabNZB
SickRage
CouchPotato
 
And of course, DrivePool and Stablebit Scanner.
 
BlueIris is quite the processor hog, even with everything optimized to be as efficient as possible. I was having some CPU overload issues when SabNZB went to unpack files, so I upgraded the processor.
 
My plan in the near future is to build a second server, run ESXi, and start working with some of the open source data center tools. I have a long IT background, but moved into IT security audit about 3.5 years ago. My home stuff is the only thing that keeps me hands-on current. This server will get the 610e back, remain my disk space server, and will most likely keep BlueIris until I add so many cameras that it can't keep up. 
 
New server is going to be an i7 4790 based system on an ASRock Z87 Extreme6 board. Gobs of memory, ESXi, and solid state drive.
 
I won't go into all the network gear, but it is all enterprise stuff - lots of APs (long 1954 ranch style house dictates it), Juniper gear throughout, etc. Cameras and some of the APs are PoE, you get the idea.

Just to chime in on my own opinion of which version to use with WHS 2011.  I started with V1 and moved to V2.  From my perspective, V2 is the right choice.  
 
1) I like the V2 remote view/control scheme much better.  The WHS Dashboard is soooo sloooow to load whereas the V2 remote app for DP is super fast.  
2) I like being able to place certain files on a specific drive (I put my VM images on a very fast drive, for example)
3) I have yet to see any benefit of the tighter integration from V1 vs V2.  
 
So no downside with V2 over V1, and several areas of upside.  Frankly, I am surprised to see Covecube still supporting a separate product for WHS.  IMHO, V1 is really not needed.  

bobbyc,
 
This is why we generally recommend manually changing the drive letter to something not commonly used.
For instance, Y:\ or B:\. Neither of these are used often and should be available. In fact, Windows should never attempt to use B:\ normally, so it's a great letter for DrivePool.

pool is fixed I had to delete all data and recreate pool after a format with zeros with wd diag but I think it was more data corruption than anything else ill transfer data back to pool tomorrow


still gonna look at getting a new hdd or 2 for the pool but that scared me


thank god for external backup

Ah, okay. Then yeah, that's probably not a good thing then.
 
As for why the WD tool gave the drive an "all clear" ... some SMART values are marked as "pre failure", meaning that they're "more important. Also, there is a threshold value on most drives. If the value isn't marked as pre-failure (and I don't think it is), and it's not above the threshold, the drive may not be flagged as bad by the manufacturer's utilities. 
 
But if StableBit Scanner is running into bad sectors as well... then definitely a good idea to replace it.