Comments for DIY Windows Home Server Build - JukeBox MkII at http://www.automatedhome.co.uk , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.automatedhome.co.uk Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:26:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-865 Great Article. It got me started on writing up my computer room setup ;-) I'll post it on my site and link back to yours. Whet AV software did you select for you WHS ? I selected F-Prot Corporate for mine as the licence covers both the server and up to 9 client PC's. That for 40 euros. - ANDRE Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:00:37 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-682 Great article. One quick question, did you have, or could you suggest alternative cases for this setup? - Jamie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:36 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-636 Nice one mark! just got around to reading the article this afternoon. Quite eerie, as your server is very, very similar to mine - lot more diskspace though! I'm still running 500Gb SATA - need to updtae to 1Tb ones at some point. - Ian Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:40:23 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-635 Nice article Mark :) I remember reading about the original server build when first published and its great to see an update. Also learned a few things about WHS,m so thanks for writing this one. Cheers. Tim - TimH Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:34:44 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-631 PP2 Already supports Windows 7. I run Windows 7 and can do full backup no problems to my WHS running Power Pack 2. - Al West Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:06 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-630 Tanks Simon - put anything relevant into this thread in our forums please... http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2507 M. - Otto-Mate Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:48:10 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-629 Very interesting article. On the energy saving angle I found that using the Scan CPU tester (a bunch of LEDs and a dummy load to power up the PSU) one PSU used 15w/27va - the old one that I was going to use consumed 26w/42va. Quite a difference percentage wise. If you remember from my posting a month of so ago. I went for a 5-way Icybox fitting. Apart from cooling the other advantage of using the 4-way Icybox rack is that the 5-way Icybox doesn't have space for the grooves that would normally support the individual CD drives in the case so surgery is necessary. I ended up bending them out the way in the case of my server and removing all the electronics from the external SCSI case and sawing them off before rebuilding as an external eSATA subsystem. During testing when I was forcing copies between adjacent drives for hours on end the drives reported 30-34c - ambient 20c. I have a mix of WD 2 and 3 platter 1Tb Green Drives and a Samsung one. Strangely even from cold startup the Samsung drive reports a 2-3 degrees lower temperature. I chose different manufacturers and different types to mitigate against a "lets all fail at roughly the same time as we have been running for the same time" scenario. I only got a single 5-way which is now in the external case - I may go for a 4 way as that will match the number of SATA slots on the card and multiplier. I'm waiting a while before adding the extra bays to the server permanently and also by then 1.5 Tb drives will be priced the same as the 1Tb ones now. Should we have a WHS thread? There are a few gotchas and issues that may be of interest plus a few suggested Add-ins. I'm doing various recovery scenarios and backup tests before putting real data on it. Simon - Simon Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:59:32 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-617 Brilliant article really enjoyed the read; the one thing I would like to have seen, is this hardware setup with hyper-v running and WHS on top of that. Keep up the good work. - Matthew Glover Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:32:14 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-616 Best practice with the home server system is to put the largest drive as the boot drive due to the way it creates the C: and D: drives. Backups are a pain - I use the system tool to back up the shares and the bdbb add-in to backup the pc backup files. Reliability of the server has been poor to date: 1) UPS vital 2) Server 2003 supported components vital 3) Good hard disks - no WD drives as they cannot stand the work the server puts them through (lost three to date) 4) Time to run chkdsk - lost count the number of times the server reports file errors and have to run chkdsk. Seems to occur with heavy disk use Would I move away from WHS - no been on it since the beta just hate the 'fancy disk raid/duplicate/tombstone' system. If this was the new idea for file systems stick to FAT! - Andrew Beasley Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:06:43 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/DIY-Windows-Home-Server-Build-JukeBox-MkII.html#comment-615 Nice. I did something like this recently using the intel atom D945GCLF2 330 board chipset... 2TB storage (two drives) total cost about £200 all in for the whole machine and it only uses about 50 watts of power. great for a 24/7 home server. - Speedy Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:08:12 +0100