On August 12, 2013 at 19:23, Mario said...
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See if you can find where that setting on yours is at, cause I can't find it.
I know there is/was an add on call "lights out" or something to that nature to enable drives to spin-down, because they didn't by default.
I never had that problem, but I didn't build my WHS box, it's an HP EX495. Perhaps it is some of the add-ins HP added to the box. I'll take a look and let you know.
I also have a script for turning file duplication on and off, but that's a manual process.
As for WHS1 EOL'ing, does that really make any difference for us? The program will still work 50 years later, just no updates, right?
For me it is a consideration. I suspect they aren't placing the attention they should to it now. I use the box to allow access to files externally, which means certain ports are open. So I do concern myself with the OS's ability to be hacked. This is always an issue of continually patching, as it's not if there are software bugs, just if they have been uncovered to be exploited by hackers.
When WHS2 first came out, I was going to upgrade, but with no upgrade option, and no file duplication, I stayed with the original. I know 3rd party apps exist, and I should probably look at it again as I'm not going to drop $400+ on Server Essential version anytime soon.
The other thing that stops me is the time involved to do the OS upgrade. The last time I had to do it, it took almost a week to move data from pooled drives onto the new O/S. I had to do it one drive at a time because I couldn't afford to just buy a bunch of new drives and move more than 1 HDD at a time. 20TB worth of data takes a long time to move, especially once you start hitting the duplicated folders and windows pops up the question of overriding existing data.
Why didn't you unpool the drives, which would then give you a bunch of drives to move parts of the data to? This and as Daniel points out, XCOPY, should get you there much more quickly. I've also often put content in place by attaching drives to my desktop system, as it is very quick, and I can attach lots of drives and not have the network connection be a bottleneck.
