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Finally I have Ubuntu setup the way I like on the Acer easyStore h340 Windows Home Server hardware. I did not employ any Drive Pooling software as I experienced it on Windows Home Server and I didn’t quite like it. This time, I want my files to be stored in a more standardized, redundant, fault tolerant setup: RAID10. Here is the steps I went through to get my 8 x 1TB drives setup to two separate software RAID10 arrays, creating an effectively ~4TB of redundant storage.
Disclaimer: I am new to Linux and do not know enough about what I am doing. If you follow these steps and resulted in data lost, I am sorry but I can’t be held responsible…. other than that, hope this helps you with what you need to accomplish.
Been busy lately geeking out at home. First got my Logitech MX Revolution mouse charging problem fixed. And now I have been playing around with Ubuntu for a few days, trying to run it on the Acer easyStore h340 Home Server which was running my Windows Home Server. Why? I have been growing uneasiness about saving my files on the Windows Home Server. Here is what has been happening….
Most of the packaged Windows Home Servers are headless. This includes the Acer easyStore h340 and the various HP Media Smart Servers. Being headless at first sounds like a great idea. Since it is a server, you will use it more or less like a network attached storage device, and you will interact with it using the Windows Home Server Connector software to setup most of the configurations. If you really want to log in to it, you can always use the remote desktop client. That was what I thought until I ran into some issues with Windows and would like to troubleshoot it right on the server. A headless server that came without any video output makes that impossible. Luckily I found this cable from VOV Technology.
I have been having the Acer easyStore h340 Home Server for a while now. Most things work pretty good. But as you probably know, Windows is not the most stable platform and I run into occasional file corruption sometimes (which is not supposed to happen, Microsoft…) Most mysteriously, the Home Server restarts from time to time unexpectedly and there is no useful system events logged to help me diagnose the problem.
You would think that after I got the Acer easyStore Home Server, my files are at least safe. Well, they are from a hardware point of view, but not from stupidity point of view.
Yesterday, I realized I lost a lot of files: 7 years worth of photos. The Acer easyStore Home Server did not fail me. I did. So here is what happened.
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Since I acquired the Acer easyStore Home Server, I have been trying to reorganize my digital library within the server. As the Acer easyStore Home Server came with 2TB of drive space, I quickly added a couple more 1TB drives I used to have with the old homemade Home Server to it to make it a total of 4TB in storage. After migrating all the files back to it, I was left with only about 0.8TB of free space. I was faced with a new decision, either deleting old files or add additional storage to the server.
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I did spare some time to test my Home Server again. It turns out that it is the drive enclosure that was flaky and causes the Home Server to misbehave. I had a clue which drive enclosure it could be because out of the 3 drive enclosures still connected to the server, 1 does not have the light on. After exchanging the drive enclosure with a spare external drive, and connected everything back with the server, everything seems to be normal again.
I still don’t think it is very safe to store my data in external USB drives. After having numerous problems with this setup, it probably is time to retire this aging hardware and replace it with a newer setup for the sake of my data. So I actually ordered and picked up the Acer easyStore Windows Home Server from NCIX (a local computer chain store in Canada).
Here it is.
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What do you do to safe guard your digital photos, and all other personal data that you cannot afford to loose? Do you have a solid storage solution for your personal data that you are confident that it can survive some level of hardware failure?
I have a self-rolled Windows Home Server at home. It is running on a rather old P4 2.8 system with 2 GBs of RAM. The motherboard has only 2 SATA connections and 4 PATA connections. PATA drives are difficult to find these days so when I was upgrading the storage of the server, I often ended up adding SATA drives in external hard drive enclosures. There was one point in time that I had 8 external drives of varying sizes connected to it.
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