I have been a HP MediaSmart owner since last November and I have been very frustrated with the following : - Hard disk are constantly being hammered; even after the never-ending "balancing" occurs, they always work at heavy load. - Sound : the server is making a lot of noise, and some very strident PSU noise that is annoying.
I also wish I could switch from SW Raid to HW Raid.
When i used WHS my disks were allways being hammered to constantly balancing and i can't understand what it was doing after 2 hours of writing a 2 gig file.. i eventually when with a raid 5 solution with VMC and HDMI out and everything works great as a fileserver/media center
I suggest taking a can of compressed air and blowing it into the server to see if that helps things out. If you don't mind voiding your warranty, you can pop open the case and swap the 60mm or so PSU fan with a much more quiet one. The next thing would be to clean the temperature diodes.
As for RAID, it's neither hardware nor software. WHS employs their own kind of disk management systems which has nothing to do with RAID. If you're interested, you can read somet documenation on it.
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Hi,
I have been a HP MediaSmart owner since last November and I have been very frustrated with the following :
- Hard disk are constantly being hammered; even after the never-ending "balancing" occurs, they always work at heavy load.
- Sound : the server is making a lot of noise, and some very strident PSU noise that is annoying.
I also wish I could switch from SW Raid to HW Raid.
Personal rating: 5/10
When i used WHS my disks were allways being hammered to
constantly balancing and i can't understand what it was doing after 2 hours of writing a 2 gig file..
i eventually when with a raid 5 solution with VMC and HDMI out and everything works great as a fileserver/media center
Hi G,
I suggest taking a can of compressed air and blowing it into the server to see if that helps things out. If you don't mind voiding your warranty, you can pop open the case and swap the 60mm or so PSU fan with a much more quiet one. The next thing would be to clean the temperature diodes.
As for RAID, it's neither hardware nor software. WHS employs their own kind of disk management systems which has nothing to do with RAID. If you're interested, you can read somet documenation on it.
Thanks,
- O