Ex495 And Ws2012E - Flaky Media Serving And Remote Access
My WS2012E has been running for a good few months now. Recently it has been acting a little flaky. After a fresh boot I can access media via DLNA streaming on either the build in server or my...
View ArticleWell When It Rains It Pour Hdd Reporting 0Gb
Ok I have been having a rough go at it for the last few weeks was hospitalized my server's USB 3.0 card started acting wonky restarted with a RAW disk and now when I go and purchase a new PC to start...
View ArticleRemoving Healthy Third Drive From Raid 5 Array
I'm currently running WHS 2011 with a 4TB RAID 5 array consisting of 3x2TB HDDs using Windows software RAID (dynamic). The RAID volume currently holds about 1.5TB of data. For various reasons, I'm...
View ArticleMemory Issues With Lo 1.5 & Whs 2011
Is anyone seeing a large memory consumption from Lightout on WHS 2011 (version 1.5.0.1470)? On my server I'm seeing Lightsout consume 280MB which seems excessive for this sort of application. Paul
View ArticleDashboard Wont Load
Hi, I'd come here to post about my folder sharing troubles, and in doing so the issues i was having on the machine which has lost access to my shared folders and was giving an error when trying to...
View ArticleMoving Files From Old Drive To New Server
Upgrading to WHS 2011, Used 250gb for main drive and add 3TB drive for storage. After installing OS I added the old drive back to the system to copy pictures, videos and music to shared folders on the...
View ArticleReplacing Hdd With A Larger One In Raid
Hi all, First post...please be gentle... ;-) Have had a search through several forums but not come up with any definitive answers.. I have an N40L running WHS2011, two 1.5TB data drives in RAID 1...
View ArticleHow To Run Chkdsk On Drives With No Drive Letters
After 3 years on my drives that I use with the built in system backup has developed a few bad sectors according to stablebit scanner. ST310003 33AS USB Device - 7.00 KB unreadable (14 sectors) I...
View ArticleBuilding A New Whs 2011 Hard/soft Ware
Hi, I decided to build a Home sever for Streaming anime/movie to Ipad/iphone, android/tablet/phone, Xbox, computer and lastly used it for storing Torrent download. Do WHS 2011 support 4tb HD ? Which MB...
View Article2012 R2 Media Streaming
Is it me or they removed the media streaming functionality in 2012 R2?
View ArticleWhat Are My Options When My Ex475 Hardware Fails
I've been using my EX475 without so much as a blip of trouble for the last 4 years. Still using WHS 1 for the DE. But I'm now unable to access the server. The machine will turn on, so it's not...
View ArticleInstalled Hardware On Reinstall Of Whs 2011
Hi, I had the system up and running for over a year but now cannot access the server either remotely on local lan or directly. Therefore, after trying all the options am going to have to reinstall....
View ArticleHelp With Slow Speeds And Parity
Hi, I have just rebuilt by WHS V1 with Server 2012 R2. I have created a 7 x 2TB parity pool using NTFS. The number of Sata ports on the motherboard. 500GB 7200 sata III system drive on the first...
View ArticleSelling My Ex475
After transitioning from an HP EX475 to a Windows 8 home server. I now plan to sell my EX475. Before I put it on eBay, is there a place in this forum to offer it to the members first? I'd rather see...
View ArticleServer 2012 Essentials Doesn't Need Antivirus?
Is it just me or WS2012E doesn't need an antivirus? In fact, I can't find any settings related to antivirus. On my WHS2011 box at home, I have AVG and Malwarebytes installed. Everyday I would see...
View ArticleOther Client Backup Software
Can someone recommend other software that can run on whs 2011 to back up clients, since having ssd boot drives in my media centres whs will not restore them successfully plus I only want to backup once...
View ArticleWindows 8 Restore From Whs V1 Uefi Secure Boot Problem
I have had no problems backing up my Windows 8 pc to the Windows Home Server v1. However, I just had a really hard time restoring the computer from a backup(after a disastrous Windows 8.1 update). I...
View ArticleWhs/mediasmart Server Connector Won't Show Files In Backup
I had this problem about a year ago and thought I resolved it but not so. I have an HP Mediasmart Server running Windows Home Server. Model is EX-495. Following are the Server versions: Windows...
View ArticleEasystore H340 Not Booting Up
Three weeks ago I got a popup saying there was trouble on one of the data drives & I should try to "Repair" it. I did, & all was fine, for 2 weeks, then the popup came back again. I figured the...
View ArticleMoving Mirrored Drives From Whs2011 To Server 2012 And Stablebit Drivepool
I posted this over on the StableBit forum as well but thought later that more people here might have experience making the move. I'm moving from WHS2011 where I used mirrored drives for redundancy....
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