Good morning all...
I ran a WHS on my EX470 for several years, until at some point last year my WHS would restart (I'm assuming due to an update), and never come back. It just hangs (presumably) with check disk or something else that I've never been able to determine. I gave up on it for a long time, and went back to the old fashioned way of putting a DISC in my HTPC to watch a movie (THE HORROR).
Well, on my desktop, I had a SMART error on one of my HDDs, so I decided to buy a 2 TB drive to replace a smaller 1 TB drive on my WHS and take the 1 TB drive and put it in my desktop as the data drive. All with that went well.
At that point, I decided to try and rebuild my WHS from scratch. I didn't even want to try and recover data at this point, just get it working. I did the factory reset with a single drive in the server, rebuilt it, and then started reintroducing drives into the pool. I started copying movies back over after it seemingly being stable for a day, and I woke up this morning to the dreaded blinking blue light. Let me be clear... From left to right on the bottom: Solid blue, Solid blue, Blinking blue.
In the past, I let the system sit for a whole week and it never came back up. Without purchasing a KVM and hooking it up to a monitor, it's difficult to determine what it could. I've seen this all over the forums before (mine started last April, and I saw some others from back then as well), but I never saw a good answer as to how and solve it.
My gut tells me that there is a MS or HP update that kills it, and that's why it works for a few days, but autoupdates kill the server.
What are my options? I'm not in love with the thought of building a new micro tower and installing WHS 2011 on it, especially without Drive Pooling. I use my WHS almost exclusively for movie storage, so Drive Pooling or similar drive management is essential.