Serious Windows Home Server concerns [Updated]

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kdishman — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:54:32 GMT

Add to this the fact that HP seems to have disabled the Shadow Copy feature on their MediaSmart servers. Found this out the hard way after accidentally deleting some files from a WHS share. Maybe Paul can ask his contacts at HP what's up with this...

re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns [Updated]

DRWAM — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:55:44 GMT

If this helps, I found this :

Microsoft's Windows Home Server corrupts files

'Don't edit' list includes photos, as well as Quicken and QuickBooks files, warns Microsoft; no word on patch

here is the link:

www.computerworld.com/.../article.do

re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns [Updated]

daveinla — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:01:25 GMT

Excuse for the total Noob question but what does a WHS box offer more than a good NAS like the excellent Buffalo LinkstationPro ??

re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns [Updated]

RunTimeError — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:27:10 GMT

Wow. This is awesome.

I was actually looking into WHS for the home network.

Think I'll stick with my original plan of a Unix box instead.

re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns [Updated]

DRWAM — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:43:33 GMT

This may be what we all use at home in a few years. Who knows, maybe the WHserver will handle Macs and Linux too! I think that it is a real possibility, I just wanted to write it first here.

re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns [Updated]

pthurrott — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:18:34 GMT

Just a quick thanks for all the comments here. Hopefully, we'll hear something positive from MS soon. I will try to ping the WHS guys this week, but given the timing, it's unclear if anyone will be around.

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mderooij — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:14:38 GMT

Gives one to think about the testing procedures used @ MS. Ah well, back to FreeNAS then ..

re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns [Updated]

pmcgrath — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:43:56 GMT

It's interesting to note that the programs listed in the KB article use structured data files. Possible the fact that the files are open when the application is open and WHS is trying to balance data is causing the data corruption.

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mbrose — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:54:50 GMT

I saw the hard drive corruption issue quite a bit (probably once a week I had a volume that failed) while I was running the Eval version, but since I reinstalled after I purchased a copy, I have not seen that problem.

I have also experienced file corruption with Quicken and QuickBooks. I had to move the data directories to local storage and just make backups to WHS. Even doing that, sometimes it corrupts the QuickBooks files (or at least it complains it can't duplicate them).

The other problem I have seen is that even saving standard office files directly to the shared drive is extremely slow. Way slower than to my other W2k3 box, so I know it's not a networking issue. I wonder if this is what causes the file corruption issues.

My guess is it has something to do with the way WHS is providing transparent access to multiple drives making them appear as one. There has to be some layer that was implemented to achieve this, and most likely this is the culprit.

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re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns

Civisi — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:55:02 GMT

Doh! I didn't remember seeing the link to the KB article in the blog posting before. When I read it on Windows-Now.com, I immediately thought of you and hurriedly posted the link. Sorry for providing info you already know...

re: Serious Windows Home Server concerns

Civisi — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:53:12 GMT

Paul,

Have you seen this?

www.windows-now.com/.../possible-data-corruption-with-windows-home-server.aspx

It links to a MS KB article about file corruption on Home Server.