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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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