Re: Re: WHS Tips

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That approach is not just a problem in WHS.  Download a file in Vista
and it gets put onto the C drive and then gets copied to the final
destination when complete.  Not only do you need to keep enough space
free, but you also have to wait for the file copy after the download has
finished :-(

Nero does a similar thing - using C for temp storage.  I've had trouble
setting up a movie conversion because I didn't have 20GB of space free
on my C drive :-(

Mal





Jamie Bennett wrote:
>
> One problem I'm finding is with the way the drive extender works.
>
> I've installed WHS on a spare 80gb drive I had hanging around thinking
> this
> would be plenty for a OS server install. But the way the drive
extender
> works is that it 'pools' all hard drives together to make it seem like
> there
> is one big bit of storage. In reality what happens is everything gets
> put on
> the main disk (the 80gb one in my case) then farmed off onto the other
> disks
> by the drive extender. The problem is that the drive extender doesn't
> constantly move files so even though I have a lot of free space in
there,
> file copies and downloads are failing until the disks are
'rebalanced'.
>
> The technical PDF for drive extender recommends that you install the
OS on
> the biggest drive possible to avoid these kinds of problems, nice of
> them to
> tell me first! Anyway, looks like I'll be reinstalling WHS. Anyone
> know if a
> ghost image and restore onto a larger disk would work with WHS?
>
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