http://www.mediasmarthome.com?src=forumtopic_rss MediaSmart Home - Hard Drives/Storage Forum Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:32:44 GMT admin@mediasmarthome.com MediaSmart Home 60 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/brand/hpsmart/community.gif http://www.mediasmarthome.com?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11066/questions/?src=forumtopic_rss so once you have your sever and put all your itunes on it can i delete them off my computer? Hard Drives/Storage Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:32:40 GMT dukegirl http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11066/questions/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11055/New-Seagate-1.5TB-drives-Problems/?src=forumtopic_rss I just bought 4 Seagate 1.5TB drives for my MediaSmart server. I have seen some complaints online stating that their compoters didn't recognize the full 1.5TB (1.3TB). Is anyone using these drives who can confirm they are getting access to the full capacity? Hard Drives/Storage Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:58:04 GMT WindyCityCouple http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11055/New-Seagate-1.5TB-drives-Problems/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11033/Copy-349Gb-to-Music-Not-enough-space/?src=forumtopic_rss Have a total of 2,73TB and 2,27TB free space on 3 internat and 1 external drives. This information is shown in Console, and disks have staus Healthy. When trying to copy 349Gb to shared folder Music, Copy comes up with a message that I ned 192Gb more to do the copying. It seems that the available space is limited to the size of system disk (500GB)? Anywhone give me a clue? Hard Drives/Storage Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:14:32 GMT Kjellf http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11033/Copy-349Gb-to-Music-Not-enough-space/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11026/Problem-adding-drive-to-pool/?src=forumtopic_rss My HP mediserver has the following configuratio. HP media server has all four bays filled with 500 gb seagates A CFI 4 bay Esata case - has a single 1 tb Hitachi (in the bottom slot) This setup has been working for 6 months. I have added a 5th 500gb seagate to the CFI case in the slot above the 1TB Hitachi. This drive does not show up in the Server Storage section where you add a drive to the pool. This seagate is identical to the other 4 segates. However, this drive does show up if I use the administrative console. I was able to format it from here. I have shut down (turned off) the HP Mediasmart several times, being sure to turn on the CFI first before I turn the Mediasmart back on. I have removed, reinserted and formatted the new 500 gb seagate several times. Its been suggested to check the serial cable, skip the 2nd bay, or flip the drives in bay 1 and 2 of the extender. HELP!!! Hard Drives/Storage Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:33:23 GMT spawndude http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11026/Problem-adding-drive-to-pool/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11016/5400-rpm-or-7200-rpm/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi all. I just received my mediasmart and need to buy some drives. Should I be going for 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm? I normally would just go for the fastest - but in a server application, is the benefit of lower speed, cooler temp and quiet operation in the 5400 rpm better then having the faster speed of the 7200 rpm, with I assume will run at a hotter temp and have more noise. I will mostly be streaming, using backup and online access. Thanks Hard Drives/Storage Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:02:45 GMT cerem http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11016/5400-rpm-or-7200-rpm/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11012/Two-new-storage-drives.-Install-both-at-the-same-time/?src=forumtopic_rss I have ordered two 1TB Caviar Green SATA drives (WD10EADS) to install in to my EX475. Should I install them one at a time or is it OK to install both at the same time? Also, I a 2GB stick of memory to install. I'm interested to know the sequence and logistics of making this upgrade to the memory and two new drives. Hard Drives/Storage Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:31:37 GMT Number 9 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11012/Two-new-storage-drives.-Install-both-at-the-same-time/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11002/Backing-up-External-Hard-Drives/?src=forumtopic_rss I just purchased the HP Mediasmart server and was wondering if anybody knows wether it can do regular backups of external HD's that are connected to my PC tower? I've learned so far that you can schedule regular back ups of the C drive in the PC, but I'm wondering if I can set up regular back ups of all of the 5 -500GB Western Digital External HD's I have attached through USB to my PC. I already have data in these 5 external HD's that I need to back up. If anyone could help me out with this I'd really appreciate it! If it's possible to do these back ups, what are the steps that I need to take in order to set it up? Thank you so much. Hard Drives/Storage Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:09:14 GMT Heavenly http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11002/Backing-up-External-Hard-Drives/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10974/Corrupt-MP3-Files/?src=forumtopic_rss After copying my music collection to my HP Server, some of the files have been corrupted. It only seems to affect those tracks that are over 7-8 minutes in length (BTW my favourite ones, CLose To The Edge, Jessica etc...) Yhese tracks start OK, but repeat after about 40 seconds, without exception this is when they repeat, So Close To The Edge starts, gets about 40 seconds in then starts again, this repeats for the length of the song. Any idea what is going on? Hard Drives/Storage Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:03:12 GMT dmac http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10974/Corrupt-MP3-Files/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10970/changing-the-original-hard-drive-on-ex470/?src=forumtopic_rss I have an HP ex470 it came with one 500GB drive, since then I have added 3 other 750GB drives to it. I want to replace the original 500GB drive with a 1.5GB drive, how do I do this? is it possible? Hard Drives/Storage Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:53:54 GMT raaaaaa http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10970/changing-the-original-hard-drive-on-ex470/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10955/Copying-Data-from-old-System-Drive/?src=forumtopic_rss So here's my problem. I had to do a Server Recovery of my MSS, which only had the original Seagate 500Gb drive in it. After performing the restore I keep getting an error stating "Windows Home Server has failed to Initialize". This is after the Connector software and HP MediaSmart software install. I spoke with HP support and tried everything they suggested. Obviously their last resort suggestion is to do a Factory Reset. As I don't want to lose all the data that I have in my shared folders on the MSS, I'm hesitant to do this. Therefore I removed the system drive and put it into my desktop. I can access the data drive from the MSS system drive on my desktop now, but when I try to copy the data files or even open them I can't. Is this a problem with access rights that were set up on the MSS? Does anyone have an idea of how to copy this data before I do a Factory Reset? Or if anyone has any ideas of how to get past the Failed Initialization error that would be great. Thanks. Hard Drives/Storage Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:54:42 GMT Walsh http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10955/Copying-Data-from-old-System-Drive/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10921/Storage-Options/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi, I'm thinking about purchasing an EX470 - but the one thing stopping me at the moment is a query about drive capacities. I've read a review which says that all the drives have to have the same capacity. However, browsing the forums, I've seen that people are using various setups. Ideally I'd like to have: Drive 1: 500GB - the drive it comes with Drives 2, 3 & 4 - 1TB each I also want to avoid running drives off USB ports at the moment - I just don't need the mess! So A) Is the above setup feasible? B) Is it possible to have different capacities in 2/3/4 i.e. 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB? At some point I'll need to increase the storage and so the ability to slap in a 2TB drive to replace one of the 1TB drives would be very beneficial. C) I want to have a full backup of data - so if I had the 3.5TB setup as described above, I'm assuming that I'd be safely able to store about 1.75TB of data? Thanks for any help you can give me. M Hard Drives/Storage Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:12:22 GMT MatF http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10921/Storage-Options/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10895/Swapping-Hard-Drive-Locations/?src=forumtopic_rss I continue to receive a missing drive notification from the top drive slot in my server. The first time it happened I replaced the drive and used another empty slot and did not think of it again. Now I have a new green 1TB WD drive that I placed in the top slot. I think this is slot # 4. Twice in the last two days the drive has gone "missing". I pull it out and re-insert and everything is fine. For a while at least. This issue could be the actual backplane connector but I'm not sure. Question: Can I swap hard drive locations from perhaps slot # 2 or #3 without any system issues to troubleshoot the issue? I am not planning to move the HD with the installed operating system. Also must I power down the server to do this or is this hot swappable? Thanks, Scott Hard Drives/Storage Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:48:04 GMT scottyc123 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10895/Swapping-Hard-Drive-Locations/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10872/Can-not-remove-external-hard-drive/?src=forumtopic_rss I tried to add an external USB 500GB drive to my Media Smart Server. However, I got the error message "Hard Drive Initialization Failed : The Wizard was unable to connect a volume on the hard drive". I retried several times with the same result. The status in the Console was "not added". I unplugged the drive from the Server and I got a warning that Network Heath is at risk and I saw that the status of the External Drive changed to "Missing". I then plugged back the drive to try to Remove the drive from the server (remember it was not added, so this is why I did not try to Remove him in the first place) and the status of the drive changed to "Unhealthy". It does not offer an option to repair it and when I try to Remove it I get the crazy message "There is not enough remaining space on your home server to safely remove the hard drive" This is nuts because I have 3,84 Terrabytes available space and there is absolutely nothing on the external hard drive since it was never even initialized. How on earth can I solve this? Your help... Hard Drives/Storage Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:23:56 GMT akis http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10872/Can-not-remove-external-hard-drive/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10868/1TB-for-99/?src=forumtopic_rss seems like a nice deal http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3333210&sku=TSD-1000H3&SRCCODE=WEM1729BY&cm_mmc=Email-_-Main-_-WEM1729-_-compo Hard Drives/Storage Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:48:26 GMT ChrisCalderon http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10868/1TB-for-99/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10851/I-deleted-a-file-during-Balancing-now-there-are-file-conflicts/?src=forumtopic_rss I didn't realize that the HP server was doing some house cleaning, and I deleted several files from one of the shared folders. Now I getting a message that there are file conflicts. Will this fix itself during the next Balancing? If not, how can it be fixed? Thanks! DickDay Hard Drives/Storage Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:04:45 GMT DickDay http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10851/I-deleted-a-file-during-Balancing-now-there-are-file-conflicts/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10811/Direct-copy-of-data-from-USB-to-WHS/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi - how can I copy data directly from an external usb drive the WHS volume, without adding the external usb into the shared total? I assume this must be possible. What speed will the data transfer at? Many thanks, Paul Hard Drives/Storage Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:01:50 GMT pcavelle http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10811/Direct-copy-of-data-from-USB-to-WHS/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10810/Seeking-Professional-help-for-issues/?src=forumtopic_rss Hello there Server-lovers! I’m calling out for your Professional help regarding some issues that i don’t understand. For some years i’m administrating a HP Proliant Server, at my office just because nobody else want to do it. I’m just an amateur, but Windows Server 2003 is pretty easy to understand. For some weeks ago i bought myself a HP MediaSmart Server EX475 with 500+500 Gb. The first thing i did was to add 2 disks with 1Tb each. I then added them to the Storage Pool, and can see that the Total Size is 2,73 Tb. So far so god. I use a HP Workstation xw4400 with Windows Vista Ultimate, and I put up network shortcuts to the shared folders. And now starts the questions: 1. Windows explorer shows 445 Gb total space and 445 Gb of free space on each shortcut. Why ??? How is the balancing of the disks working ? I installed 2 add-ins (”Disk Management” and ”Advanced Admin Console”) to figure out where my files are in what partition and so on… (just have to know) (And just for the record: I turned off duplication of folders because i still have my Maxtor 1 Tb Lan-disk... Hard Drives/Storage Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:52:53 GMT yes04 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10810/Seeking-Professional-help-for-issues/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10795/Moving-data-from-one-HD-to-another/?src=forumtopic_rss I had to replace my EX 470 original HD with a new one. The old one has been fixed and has data I want to move on to the new Storage Hard Drive. I have added the old one to the server, and I can see a 20GB partition as a Server Backup Hard Drive, but I can't see the data partition and have no idea how to move it even if I could. Any ideas? Thanks Hard Drives/Storage Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:00:30 GMT esmhw01 http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10795/Moving-data-from-one-HD-to-another/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10759/Should-Storage-Balancing-be-running-every-hour/?src=forumtopic_rss I installed the PP1 yesterday and the upgrade went fine. Unfortunately, now the server seems to be doing a Storage Balancing every hour. In the past few hours, it did one at 6:28, 7:20, 8:29 and now it just finised at 9:35. I only have one 500GB drive in the HP 470 and only have 12GB of data on it. Prior to PP1, I rarely ever saw it run this utility. Now that it's safe to add my 2nd drive and turn folder duplication on, will the frequency and duration of Storage Balancing increase? Will cranking up the RAM to 2GB fix this? Up until now, the latency on this server was not noticable. Now, when Storage Balancing is running, it's almost not usable. Thanks, DickDay Hard Drives/Storage Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:40:23 GMT DickDay http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10759/Should-Storage-Balancing-be-running-every-hour/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10719/Hard-drive-problem/?src=forumtopic_rss My most recent hard drive addition had worked fine for the past couple of months. But now it's blinking from blue to red (or a purplish red). Is it going out? Can it be fixed? I tried going into the Home Server and it shows all drives and folders as healthy, so there's nothing I can click the "repair" button on. Any suggestions? Hard Drives/Storage Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:53:13 GMT IatricSB http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/10719/Hard-drive-problem/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss