Hard Drive Expansion
Hello I am trying to find information on buying an expansion cage to be able to mount additional 3.5 HDD's inside of my server. The computer has 2 optical bays and 2 3.5 bays I have one optical drive...
View ArticleCan't Get Drives To Spin Down & Stay Down
I've recently installed WHS 2011 (previously using v1), and I'm having a difficult time getting drives to spin down & stay spun down. I'm using FlexRAID tRAID and created a large pool of 23 data...
View ArticleAcer Easystore H340 Cmos Continuously Beeping
My easystore boots into windows, however about every 2 minutes the CMOS beeps audibly. Any ideas what would be causing this? Hard drive is not full...
View ArticleWaking My Server Using My Phone?
Hi, I have recently installed Plex onto my server which is working brilliantly but I would like to know if it is possible to wake my server from sleep using my Xperia Z1 at all as I am currently...
View ArticleDrivepool Or Storage Spaces?
I've just built a new homeserver using Windows 8 with the aim of using storage spaces to manage my storage. Unfortunately Storage Spaces seems none too reliable according to a number of articles...
View ArticleMonitoring Ip Cameras With Lights-Out
I searched the forum for an answer to this topic, but I can't seem to find any. What I would like to know is, how do you use lights-out when WHS2011server software (Blue Iris) is constantly monitoring...
View ArticleClient Selective Restore Failure
In preparation for reinstalling the OS (Win7x64Pro) on a desktop, I was checking the status of the client backup so I could selectively restore data after completing installation of OS and data....
View ArticleSuspend And Hibernate Not Available?
So I am trying to add a calendar item and the trial version of lights out is saying the suspend and hibernate options are greyed out and not supported on my system. When I was running the previous...
View ArticleConsidering Upgrade From Whs V1, Opinions Please
Hello everyone, I have been using a WHS V1 (HP Mediasmart 470) for years now, without issues. A recent laptop purchase came with Windows 8.1 installed. I initially had some issues connecting to it...
View ArticleWindows 8 Home Server - New Build
I researched this to some extent over the past couple weeks and found this website to have some decent feedback and hope I can tap into it to get me some build advice for a home server running Win8. I...
View ArticleBuilding My First Htpc
Hi all I'm going to be building my first htpc here in the next week or so and have a few questions. I want it to serve as a htpc/nas box. I will be using windows 8 pro with media center as the OS. I've...
View ArticleWindows 8 Vs. Windows Server 2012 Standard
I've seen quite a bit about using Windows Server 2012 Essentials, but I don't have $500 to put down (or is it $400 now?) on a new OS. How does Server 2012 Standard (I get a free copy through school)...
View ArticleGen 8 Microservers
Anyone got one, or upgraded from the older NL's to the new Gen 8 boxes? I might be able to wangle a free one so was thinking redo my setup at home and move my VM box from my main machine to the Gen8 as...
View ArticleEx490 Issues After Processor Upgrade
I've been running my EX490 for about a year with pretty much no issues. I had updated the server to 4GB of RAM and WHS 2011 with DrivePool. I bought an E8600 from eBay recently and finally got around...
View ArticleWestern Digital's New Black Dual Drive
Been reading up on the drive, it's 2.5" form factor, two separate drives in one. Has a 120GB SSD drive, along with a 1TB HDD drive. According to all I've seen, the 120GB SSD drive is accessible by...
View ArticleEsata Card Causing Blue Screens
I just got a Mediasonic ESata pcie card today and installed it with the hope that it would fix the USB 3.0 issues I have been having (they are driving me nuts) So I got the card installed it and booted...
View ArticleSynchronizing Serverfolders And Folder Redirection ?
Hello I have enabled Folder Redirection on my WSE. Therefore, in my dashboard I have the predefined serverfolders like PICTURES, MUSIC and so on. Within Folder Redirection\UserName\ I have again...
View ArticleAccess Calibre Remotely From 2012Se
I want to be able to access My Calibre library from my 2012SE server using the remotewebaccess Web site. I bought and followed the WGS reverse Web proxy guide, which is excellent. There seems to be...
View ArticleMedia Pack, Windows Server Essentials R2 And Recorded Tv Folder
I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Essentials role. I installed the Media Pack to get back some of the media functions that were in the first release but I'm not getting a Recorded TV folder...
View ArticleYet Another Drivepool Question = New User + New Pool
Hello peeps. Sorry for asking this since I bet its been answered before. I went through the forums but did not see anything that suggested a new user can do what I'm about to do. I have a Home...
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