I forgot what a pain it was to share folders in Windows Vista. I mean... until today. Today I remembered what a pain it is. I have no idea what Microsoft was thinking with their new morass of file sharing rules, but it is obfuscated at best. Mainly it's just frustrating. Thankfully I figured it out eventually, so now I have started the file transfers to the new fileserver.
Hopefully the computer will be up, running and finished by tomorrow evening so the Hustons can take it home with them.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Huston Fileserver (Day 3+4)
I had really limited time to work on the fileserver yesterday, so I didn't accomplish anything more fantastic than furthering my frustration with trying to install Windows.
Today was much more fruitful, though. I finally figured out the Windows installation problem. I didn't realize that I had to set the raid drive as the boot drive in both the BIOS and the Raid Utility. Once I did that, the Windows installation went smoothly.
Later, the bad setting became a non-issue when I removed the second raid drive I was trying to run. Windows refused to recognize the second raid drive and I think it is due to some driver issues. I could not find a driver to fix the problem, so I broke the two 300GB hard drives out into separate drives.
Now the computer is formatting the second 300GB and getting ready for a big file transfer. My Fileserver has been shut down for the night (to keep the room cool) so the transfer will begin in the morning. In the meantime, Windows has been successfully updated and the general cleaning process is begun.
Today was much more fruitful, though. I finally figured out the Windows installation problem. I didn't realize that I had to set the raid drive as the boot drive in both the BIOS and the Raid Utility. Once I did that, the Windows installation went smoothly.
Later, the bad setting became a non-issue when I removed the second raid drive I was trying to run. Windows refused to recognize the second raid drive and I think it is due to some driver issues. I could not find a driver to fix the problem, so I broke the two 300GB hard drives out into separate drives.
Now the computer is formatting the second 300GB and getting ready for a big file transfer. My Fileserver has been shut down for the night (to keep the room cool) so the transfer will begin in the morning. In the meantime, Windows has been successfully updated and the general cleaning process is begun.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Huston Fileserver (Day 1+2)
All of the spare parts have been gathered together and installed. It's not an impressive conglomeration, but free stuff is rarely the cream of the crop. The current specs of the system are as follows:
Case: Fong-Kai FK320B
PSU: Enermax Coolergiant 450W ATXv2.0
CPU: AMD Athlon64 3000+
Motherboard: Asus A78N-E
RAM: 3GB Corsair
HSU: Zalmann
GPU: Radeon X800GTO
SPU: Creative Labs Audigy 2 Value
HDD1: (2) Seagate 80GB Sata1 @ Raid 0
HDD2: (2) Western Digital 300GB Pata133 @ Raid 0
ODD1: Plextor CD-RW
ODD2: Sony DVD-ROM
This should provide a total storage payload of about 600GB for the Hustons, which will not be enough to manage all of the video files they are planning to load onto it. However, the computer will more importantly supply a baseline for connecting more external hard drives to expand its capacity significantly.
After getting the hardware installed and situated, it's time to work on installing Windows Vista Ultimate. Windows Vista was chosen because it was (1) available and (2) capable of sharing files with Windows 7 easily. As of abandonment, Windows Vista was still refusing to install on the raided hard drives.
Case: Fong-Kai FK320B
PSU: Enermax Coolergiant 450W ATXv2.0
CPU: AMD Athlon64 3000+
Motherboard: Asus A78N-E
RAM: 3GB Corsair
HSU: Zalmann
GPU: Radeon X800GTO
SPU: Creative Labs Audigy 2 Value
HDD1: (2) Seagate 80GB Sata1 @ Raid 0
HDD2: (2) Western Digital 300GB Pata133 @ Raid 0
ODD1: Plextor CD-RW
ODD2: Sony DVD-ROM
This should provide a total storage payload of about 600GB for the Hustons, which will not be enough to manage all of the video files they are planning to load onto it. However, the computer will more importantly supply a baseline for connecting more external hard drives to expand its capacity significantly.
After getting the hardware installed and situated, it's time to work on installing Windows Vista Ultimate. Windows Vista was chosen because it was (1) available and (2) capable of sharing files with Windows 7 easily. As of abandonment, Windows Vista was still refusing to install on the raided hard drives.
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