http://www.mediasmarthome.com?src=category_rss MediaSmart Home - Hard Drives/Storage Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:51:20 GMT admin@mediasmarthome.com MediaSmart Home 60 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/brand/hpsmart/community.gif http://www.mediasmarthome.com?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14465/Move-data-from-System-drive/?src=category_rss Is there an add-in or other utility to move the data stored on the second partition of the system drive to another drive in the pool or external drive? Hard Drives/Storage Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:51:20 GMT BetaVirus http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14465/Move-data-from-System-drive/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14423/Seagate-HDD-in-EX495/?src=category_rss Hey All, Bit the bullet, took the plunge and ordered an EX495. I should get it by weeks end. I was wondering if anyone with a 495 could let me know which model of 1.5TB Seagate is in it. My plan is to drop it in directly and setting up duplication. I've heard and read fo problems with the WD greens and want to avoid that hassle. So, Seagate is the way to go... unless someone has a better solution that will be more quiet?? Thanks in advance, Grant Hard Drives/Storage Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:44:23 GMT GrantB http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14423/Seagate-HDD-in-EX495/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14422/Software-Help-Please/?src=category_rss Having purchased 3 new HDs for my HP 475, I am now looking to use one of my 4 HDs to back up the other 3 HDs. The HP Support People said there are several programs for the MediaSmart Server which will allow me to use the 4th HD to back up the other drives' PC backup content. They said one software program is called, "Back up my backup." Has anyone heard of this or another program I could use as a secondary backup? Thanks in advance. Dan Hard Drives/Storage Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:12:29 GMT Dan 64 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14422/Software-Help-Please/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14374/What-are-the-USB-ports-for-and-other-questions.../?src=category_rss I just picked up my first WHS yesterday afternoon and I'd have to say that it's somewhat of a challenge. Getting the various Windows PCs in the house set up have been pretty straight forward. On the other hand, I've got 2 Macs that I'm trying to get connected and backed up to the server and I'm having issues. And ironically, most of my media is on the Macs, so it's frustrating. So I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping someone or some-many can answer for me. I would appreciate any help here. 1. What are the USB ports on the server for? I specifically ask this, because I've got an external USB drive that I've been backing up all of my media to (movies, music, etc) and wondered if I could just connect the drive directly to the server and somehow transfer all of that media to it? Or do i have to connect it to one of my PCs and have the server treat it as a drive attached to that PC and back up from there? 2. I've found dozens of tutorials online about backing up Macs to the server. The biggest problem I've had... Hard Drives/Storage Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:16:44 GMT strich http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14374/What-are-the-USB-ports-for-and-other-questions.../#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14327/Ready-to-buy-my-new-EX495-MediaSmart-server-what-drives-are-best/?src=category_rss About ready to buy my first mediasmart server from Amazon. I am thinking it is probably best to go ahead and buy at least one additional drive now, so I can use the file duplication (software raid) backup feature. I see several options for this second drive.. seagate, WD, 1.5TB, 2TB, etc. If it were true RAID, I'd know my answer. But what is a good option here? I assume that the folder duplication feature simply copies folders from one drive to a copy on another. So a 2TB wouldn't make much sense to be used as a "mirror" of the original 1.5TB. Am I understanding this correctly? What do you recommend? Is drive speed a concern? Looking forward to ordering tomorrow! :) Oh, and BTW.. does anyone have thoughts on if wise to get the HP 2yr extended warantee for $75? Hard Drives/Storage Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:44:42 GMT Brian C. http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14327/Ready-to-buy-my-new-EX495-MediaSmart-server-what-drives-are-best/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14318/Where-did-they-go/?src=category_rss I had ripped several of my DVD's to the Video folder. I noticed on 1/27 that all of the files were missing. There were files there from Oct-Nov 2009 but all files recorded in Dec 2009, Jan 2010 were missing. I had to travel and have only gotten home to troubleshoot the problem. I have searched and the files are just plain gone. What could have happened? I do see that there was an automatic software upgrade on Jan 22nd and I don't check my folders every day so I have no idea if the problem was the upgrade but the bottom line is that losing these files makes the server pretty dicey as a place I want to save files to :( Hard Drives/Storage Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:38:20 GMT geekmom http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14318/Where-did-they-go/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14310/Removing-this-hard-drive-will-not-remove-help/?src=category_rss I have a EX487 and had a 1TB usb HD on it bt, the HD always loses connection and needed to be unplug and & pluged back in. So I tried to remove it from the storage drives and it get about 3/4 the way done and loses it power or something like it always does. And needs to be unpluged and pluged back in. So that doesnt finish removing. So I just left it unpluged and I'm trying to just remove the drive with out it. It makes it almost to the end with a tiny gap that itsnot finishing. I tried to remove it about 5 times with the same. Does anyoneknow another way to remove a usb drive? I also tried to plug it back in and it will not reconigize it at all. I left it on all night long for about 10 hrs and stil no movement. I also see that I cant access shared folders on server, but I see it backing up one of the home computers and themessage on the remove a hard drive say neither should work while removing HD? I'm lost and need some advise to try. Thanks Hard Drives/Storage Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:09:27 GMT Cram http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14310/Removing-this-hard-drive-will-not-remove-help/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14299/EX485-Drive-Caddy-Holder-Needed/?src=category_rss I believe this has come up before but I will try again. Does anyone know where a Drive Caddy can be obtained for the MediaSmart Server? I have searched the HP web site from top to bottom and cannot find a listing or part number for the caddy. Perhaps someone here has a junked MSS they might want to part out. Thanks, Dan Hard Drives/Storage Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:57:47 GMT StarNet http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/14299/EX485-Drive-Caddy-Holder-Needed/#discussion?src=category_rss