By Philip Churchill on March 06th, 2010
Win PerfectDisk 11 WHS Bundle – Day 3
It’s day 3 of our mega PerfectDisk 11 WHS Bundle giveaway and for a chance of winning one of today’s two copies we want to ask you a couple of questions.
You just need to leave a comment below telling us how many hard drives you have in your Windows Home Server (and their sizes) and also tell us your top 3 or 5 add-ins which you always install.
And don’t forget the NEW PerfectDisk 11 for Windows Home Server Bundle includes 2 licenses, one for WHS itself and the other for one of your client PCs.
Two winners will be announced Wednesday 10th March – Good luck!
UPDATE: Day 3 of the competition is now closed and so are the comments.
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Hello,
at the moment I only have one hard drive in my Server (Spinpoint 1TB), but I am going to order three WD Caviar green 1,5 or 2 TB next month.
My favourite add-ins are
– Addin Central
– ClamAV for WHS
– Lights Out
Hi there,
I’ve got 5 disks in my Home Server:
1 WD 7200rpm 1TB system disk
1 older 500GB disk
3 WD GreenPower 2TB disks
All conneted via Serial ATA.
My addins:
Disk Manager
sabnzbd
MyMovies (monitor)
4 1TB Hard Drives
top 5 addins: Disk Management, DA Document Manager, My Movies, TV Manager, uTorrent
Hi,
On my WHS i have 7 hardrives:
– 2 1.5TB Seagates
– 2TB Samsung
– 4 750GB WDs
So i have sth about 8TB of space on my WHS 🙂
My favourite add-ins are:
– LightsOut
– AdminiMe
– uTorrent
– MyMovies
– RouterControl
Hi Philip,
Just the 2 HDDs here, both 500GB.
They’re the originals from my MSS EX475.
Been reliable for over two years, now.
(and a 1.5TB USB external, not added)
Add-in #1 is mControl – home automation is nice
After that, I’d say Squeezebox Server – for my wife’s music
Then, P80 and Advanced Admin Console are nice, closely followed by Disk Management
Thanks!
3 drives (1TB + 2 x 500GB)
Add-ins:
– Lights out
– BDBB
Hi,
My WHS is home brew. I have space for 14 Hard disks (by incorporating 2@ 5 bay Icy dock backplanes), but currently have just 10. Most are Samsung/Seagate 1.5Tb, although there are 2 Samsung 1Tb HDDs. Main use (apart from daily backup of all PCs in house) is media server for Home Theatre PC in lounge
Add-ins installed are Disk Management, Lights Out and WHS Tools. I recently used WHS BDBB to copy the Backup Database over to this recently built replacement WHS.
I have 14 drives, ranging from 500GB to 2TB in size, for 12.5 TB total. The drives are either Samsungs or Western Digitals.
I have three essential add-ins at the moment: Disk Management, MyMovies Collection Management for WHS, and KeepVault Backup.
I want to keep my drives clean and fast running. PerfectDisk is a supeerb tool for that purpose.
I currently have three 1TB drives in my WHS. I have designs on a reconfiguration and expansion, but that probably won’t happen untill Vail drops.
As for add-ins:
Disk Management
MyMovies
KeepVault
GridJunction
I have 12 drives in My WHS right now, all WD Green Powers:
1 500 GIG for the os base drive
2 2 TB Drives
7 1 TB drives
For a total of 10.46 TB
I use:
WHS Disk Management add in
Advanced Admin Console
P80
Sage tv addin for WHS
Hi
My WHS is a custom built system with 2 Hard Drives.
Main Drive is a 1.5 TB Sata
2nd Drive is a 500 GB Pata
External 1 TB USB for Backups
I Love Windows Home Server and PerfectDisk 11 WHS Bundle would be the Perfect Addition – – – Shorto
I have 1 120 GB drive for the system and 2 750 gb and 1 1 tb drive for most of the data.
I will always install LightsOut, KeepVault, Disk Management, AutoExit, and PerfectDisk if I win it.
You just need to leave a comment below telling us how many hard drives you have in your Windows Home Server (and their sizes) and also tell us your top 3 or 5 add-ins which you always install.
HDDs:
1. base MSS 485 Seagate 750GB
2. Seagate 1.5TB
3. Hitachi 2.0TB
4. Seagate 320GB External USB
Top Add Ins:
1. Disk Management (Tentacle Software)
2. Duplication Info (akiba)
3. Advanced Admin (Andreas)
4. WHS Backup Database Backup (Kuretz)
5. TiVo Publisher (Durfee)
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Five Hard Drives
(1) -1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 5900RPM (Backup Drive and Search Index location)
(1) – 500GB Seagate Desktop – External Drive (for BDBB backups)
(2) – 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 5900RPM (Storage Drives)
(1) – 250GB Samsung Spinpoint (WHS System Drive)
My top 5 Add-Ins are (in order)
PerfectDisk 11 will reign supreme number one 😀 – only if I am able win it as I cannot afford to buy it on my current budget. 🙁
1. utorrent (Love to be able remotely add and manage torrents)
2. WHS Mobile (I have the client set up on my Iphone)
3. AutoExit (Great to put computers to sleep or wake them up)
4. Duplication and Disk Manager (I feel they both belong together and should come standard with WHS)
5. BDBB (Best backups utility for computer backups)
I would love to get my hands on PerfectDisk 11 😛
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Currently only one WD Caviar Black 640GB but planning on adding another. My WHS is used mainly for backups so further redundancy isn’t as important.
Favorite add-ins are Advanced Admin Console and Web Logs.
I only have two drives as that is all the box has space for – one for 465.76 GB and one for 596.17 GB. I would have more if I could fit them inside.
The addons I currently have are
SabNZBd
P80
Advanced Admin Console
Syslog
I have 3 drives in my EX95:
The 1.5TB that came with the system and a pair of 250GB Maxtor drives that I had laying around.
The originl 500GB came with the MediaSmart. I have two 1.5 TB Seagate Harddrive added to it
Defragging your Home Server keeps it healthy and running efficiently. It also reduces wear and tear on the hard drives.
4 Hard Drives:
– 2X 1TB WD Green
– 2X 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
3 TB of total Storage (More will be added very soon)
Favorite add-ins:
– MSS Fan Control
– Web Logs
– uTorrent
– Advanced Admin Console
– P80
2 WD GreenPower 2TB disks in my HP495
Home-brew WHS
AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 GHz
ASUS M4A78L-M Motherboard
2 GB RAM
Antec Two Hundred ATX Case with external SATA drive bay
+TRENDnet TEG-S80G 10/100/1000 Green Switch
+APC 550es UPS
I spent a lot for get the most storage:
4 Hard Drives-WD Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3.0 in AHCI mode
If you count the external SATA bay I have two spare 1.5 GB WD drives that I use to backup the server
My favorate plugin’s are:
Perfect Disk if I win
uTorrent
Diskmanagement
Gridjunction
Advanced Admin Counsole
WHS BDBB
My WHS has 4 x 500Gb enterprise sata drives.
I use the following add-ins
Remote Alert
WHS BDBB
7 Hard drives:
2 500GB
3 1TB
1 2TB
Addins:
Grid Junction
Disk Management
My Movies
I have a:
320 GB 2.5″ drive for the OS
1 TB WD Green
500 GB Samsung Spinpoint F1
My 5 favo add-in’s:
Disk Manager
Advanced Admin Console
AutoExit
Tab Reorderer
Firefly/Fireplay
I have
1 WD 1.5 TB
5 WD 1 TB
1 WD 640 GB
1 Seagate 500 GB
Add-ins
Avast
Perfectdisk 10
Advance Admin
Record TV manager
2 250GB
1 640GB
1 1TB installed
Another 1TB waiting to be installed
Addins:
WHS Disk Management
Advanced Admin Console
Avast! for WHS
PerfectDisk 10 today, PerfectDisk 11 next week
I currently have the following hard drives on my WHS:
1 Hitachi 1 TB
1 Maxtor 250 GB
1 WD 40 GB
1 Seagate 320 GB External
Favorite addins are :
Asoft Autoexit
Remote Notification
Advanced Admin Console
P80
2 1TB drives
Addins:
Advanced Admin Console
Avast!Antivirus
Home Server Smart
Remote Alert
Whiist
I have 1x Internal WD 1TB
And 1x External 1TB Verbatim
My favourite apps are:
Asoft Autoexit
Avast!Antivirus
uTorrent
and hopefully PerfectDisk 11
I have 6 x 500gb discs in my server and a 160gb external disc for server back up.
My add inns are
whiist
php
mysql
Bill
guys,
I’ve got a homebrew system consisting of all Western digital:
System drive is a 250 GB YS,
remainder are
1 each of 640 GB and 500 GB AAKS,
1 x 750 GB AVVS ,
1 x 750 GB AACS , and
1 x 1 TB EADS.
And reading from my home server console icons, the top add-ins are:
Perfectdisk 10 (hopefully to be updated in the near future),
Lights out,
DiskManagement,
Advanced Admin Console
Good Morning Everyone,
I have two (2) WHS units. The first one is a HP ex485 with four (4) Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Presently, I am waiting to receive a copy of the latest 3.0 software from HP (which has been delayed in shipping). BTW, HP’s handling of the software upgrade delivery has been deplorable.
The second WHS is a custom built unit with eleven (11) Western Digital 2.0 TB drives (WD20EADS) for storage, plus two(2) Western Digital 150 GB VelociRaptor drives (WD1500HLFS) in a RAID 1 array for mirrored system drives. The custom build has an overall storage capacity of 20.15 TB, of which 12.37 is still waiting for me to accumulate more stuff at the time I’m writing this comment. The custom built unit utilizes a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard with several PCIe add-in SATA II controllers (with identical Silicon Image chipsets) for the extra hard drives, with a ThermalTake ToughPower 850 watt PSU, in an Antec tower case.
Some of my favorite add-ins are: Disk Management (v.1.1.2.1999); Avast v4.8.257; and WHS File Manager, v1.1.1.0. There are several other add-ins that I have reviewed, but have not yet decided to install.
Obviously, with the number of hard disks in this machines, a RELIABLE and BUG-FREE defrag add-in, such as the new PerfectDisk V Bundle, would seem to be of some particular benefit in keeping these storage systems operating in good fashion. I would like to give that new PerfectDisk v11 software a try on these units to see how it works.