One Year Update
8 Feb
So, I’ve had the TSmini for more than a year and it’s still running great. Finally, ASUS have updated their product page for the home server, though, in order to find it, you have to go to Commercial Servers, then Home Server. Here is a direct link that works as of today. No BIOS updates since 0404 from November 0f 2009.
A few visitors have freed the blocked VGA port (with some careful Dremeling) and use the TSmini as a standalone server/media center. Kudos to them.
I’m curious if anyone has put 2 or 3 TB drives in their system. And, if you did, was it an upgrade? How did you transfer your existing data?
As some have noted here, the next release of Windows Home Server is 64-bit only. It will NOT work on the first-gen TSmini.
Has anyone been able to get the port multiplier on the eSATA ports to work?
I’ve added multiple 2TB drives to my system. The “type” of the port multiplier prevented it from working reliably with my mediasonic enclosure…. I ended up using it with USB2. I’m unclear on what enclosure will work with the Marvell.
It supports Command-based Switching (CBS). The 3TB drives are non-starters…can’t be connected internally, and wouldn’t be recognized by WHS as anything other than 2.05TB
TS Mini with 500GB boot and 2TB drive internal…started trying to copy the data across….was going to take a week to copy the 1.2TB of data across the network at 1Gb.
So and I setup a mirrored volume on my desktop computer with two 2TB drives, copied data to the new volume, removed one of the drives (2TB) placed it in an enclosure connected it to the Home Server…then used the Remote Desktop to then copy the contents from the 2TB drive to the mount point on the home server, took a couple hours.
I have a pair of Barracuda LP 2TB Drives in mine. I used the internal 256MB Flash to store my Linux Kernel and initrd. After that, it mounts a 1.5GB Swap (750GB on both drives) and root (3.8TB on both drives).
I meant 750MB, not GB.