Power Pack 1 – One Man's Experience
Gaen Smith posted the following in the Windows Home Server Forums – One man’s experience with Power Pack 1:
I have had nothing but positive results with PP1!!! I am running a homebuilt WHS with a Intel 3210SL Server Board, Dual Core Xeon Processor, 4 GB of DDR2 800 memory, 12 Seagate 500GB HD and 3 VFD displays (to monitor system states 24/7). I have over 1TB of uncompressed DVD’s (I own em) 500GB of Windows Lossless Audio Files, and over 500GB of system files. I have added an extra 2 500GB drives using eSATA connectors. When the corruption issue first raised it’s ugly head it hit me pretty hard, so I reloaded and only had one drive for WHS and shared the others using standard share practices and over the last week have been copying then migrating my disks. I also backed up over 300GB worth of files at a time to my two external SATA disks and not one hitch!! I have 6 computers doing full backups and sharing audio and video files with the OS’s ranging from WINXP Pro, WINXP Media center 2005, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Ultimate. As a test I even had all 6 running uncompressed HD movies simultaneously and not one hiccup. My Roku is also performing flawlessly. My hats off too the WHS team, this is what a good product is about and now I am pushing it to family and friends.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
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Empty words again regarding WHS…
The Windows Home Server Disk Management Add-In has compatibility issues with Power Pack 1, and yet Gaen Smith only thinks to advertise WHS by claiming his own experience insures the rest of ours…
PP1 is full of unresolved issues, it’s NOT even RTM yet, being still BETA for a good reason. That being there’s bugs in the product, still needing to be resolved here.
Unfortunately, even with PP1 WHS remains to be without the means for end users to backup the WHS operating system still.
And just what does, “When the corruption issue first raised it’s ugly head it hit me pretty hard” suppose to mean? That even with PP1, the darn bloody KB 946676 data corruption defect still isn’t fixed???
What’s the point of using WHS when it clearly remains broken, still with data corruption, despite having waited since last year to be resolved by Microsoft?
Microsoft’s new matto, “Does it Work” as we already know it, “Doesn’t Play for Sure” thanks to Microsoft DRM.
Let’s see, this bog entry has been live for over a day and then all of the sudden we have three posts each within 10 minutes of the next and they all have this trolling tone. Seems suspicious, let’s take a look.
Let’s see, the first post tells us that the beta PP1 has bugs and hasn’t RTM’d yet (someone should look up the definition of “beta”), then points out that the data corruption bug wasn’t fixed prior to PP1. That man is a genius.
The second post links to an entry from January 1st, trying to trick us into thinking that this somehow proves the data corruption bug isn’t fixed in PP1. Interesting logic.
The third one (my personal favorite) points at about 6 non-WHS related topics to make a point that no one can understand. You sir must be a Rhodes Scholar. Either that or a politician.
Utter nonsense.