It’s now good news / bad news with the home server. Good news is that its back alive and running better than ever with the new system drive. Bad news is that it came back with all the drives wiped clean. I chose to do a “System Recovery” instead of a “factory reset” because it [...]
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My wife and I were in the middle of watching a recorded show in Media Center that was stored on the Windows Home Server. Right at the end the show froze which I assumed was a network issue. Turns out that the home server died. I am in the process of performing a system recovery [...]
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In my first follow-up to my post on moving your family to a whole home Media Center solution I wanted to give a better idea on what I have in my setup and how it’s all connected. We have four rooms in the house where we can use and enjoy Media Center. The following diagram [...]
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MyMovies was the go to plugin for organizing your movie collection in Media Center. Over time it started to show it’s age. We did get small updates and a nice Windows Home Server version to centralize the database. Finally after much anticipation we have news on MyMovies 3.0 from Ian Dixon: I have some exclusive [...]
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The 5-Bay SATA drive enclosure is up and running with a new 1.5TB hard drive. The storage pool (aka JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)) now looks like this: The setup was very much plug and play except for one small snag. The eSATA port on the back of my HP Media Smart WHS only [...]
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