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Adding a Hard Drive to a Windows Home Server

David McGrath — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:45:28 +0000

As the title says. Here’s the video:

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EVEN MOAR STORAGE!!!1ELEVEN

David McGrath — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:41:55 +0000

I just got a 2TB hard drive for my Windows Home Server. Swim around in your bigger pool, my precious data!

You know you envy my home server on a fridge

David McGrath — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:17:17 +0000

Today’s project:

Today I moved my Windows Home Server from the corner of the basement to on top of the basement fridge. This moves it away from the TV room, where it makes noise and can get bumped around (my precious hard drive enclosures!), and it also moves it off the ground… you know, in case there’s a flood or something. I also took the UPS off of my desktop computer and put it on the server. I figure that’s the data I’m really trying to protect anyway, since the Windows Home Server automatically backs up the data on my desktop computer.

Sure way to always max out your CPU

David McGrath — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:20:50 +0000

Transcode video. Wow! I’m transcoding my raw DVD rip collection so that I have a mirrored copy that can play on my Xbox 360.

A while ago I got some extra storage and since I have been ripping full DVDs left and right. I wrote a piece of software, DVD Cover Art Finder, to find cover art for the DVDs, and now I am expanding that program’s feature set to include creating a mirror copy of the full DVDs as M4V files that the Xbox 360 can play. My efforts aren’t all that special… I just send the correct parameters to the HandBrake CLI, which takes care of the hard stuff. This development version of DVD CAF saves key information about the rip, such as what settings it was created with and where it is stored, so that in the future I can add an option to re-transcode the videos with another preset. I might need to get another hard drive for my Windows Home Server!

Windows Home Server (NEED MOAR DATA!)

David McGrath — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:04:42 +0000

I’m really behind on posts. I couple weeks ago I built a new i7 computer, leaving my old (ha!) Core 2 Quad computer lonely and unusable. To remedy this sad situation, I bought a 1 terabyte hard drive and a copy of Windows Home Server to convert my trusty ol’ compy into a happy new home server. I’m not going to go too deep into the project in this post, but rather I am simply going to post this picture:

I’ve been at it for a couple days, and I’m still migrating data onto the server.