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Sans Digital support said I need to upgrade the drivers for my Marvell controller. I also contacted Rosewill support, who passed me on to Sans Digital support because my port multiplier is made and supported by them. PerfectDisk support says they think it’s a hardware issue.

January 26, 2010: Contacted PerfectDisk support.

I disabled PerfectDisk and the errors stopped.

December 2009: Started getting file conflict errors.

It was discovered when I introduced PerfectDisk into the system (though it was a drive problem, not a PerfectDisk problem). In December 2009 my trouble with the aforementioned WD Green drives started. (The drive works really well, not sure what this was about.) I disabled defragmentation of the system drive and these warnings stopped. I noticed after running PerfectDisk for a month or so that I was getting health warnings on my system drive roughly once or twice a week.

Diskeeper 2009 is another option that is fairly popular but is expensive and doesn’t have anything compelling over PerfectDisk.

PerfectDisk 10 is what I use because it’s comparable to other solutions, has a nice interface in the WHS console, and costs half of Diskeeper.You can’t just use any standard defrag program because it won’t understand the WHS filesystem. For a short time while I was trying to get Windows Media Center to work, I considered using My Movies for WHS. Instead of using the weak media sharing capabilities on Windows Home Server, I put Asset UPnP on to serve my music and I’ve switched to Plex for video. Not good, and they never did come out with an official update (other than Windows Home Server v2). Several accounts of people losing media sharing entirely are there as well as the fact that it takes the automatic sharing setup out of the console. There is a good forum here explaining how to update WHS to incorporate WMP11 sharing, but I DIDN’T DO IT.

That product has been discontinued and the replacement is the Media Sharing feature of Windows Media Player 11. I tried all of them, even the Xbox 360 preset. Even the AVI format it supports is ripped with a codec that Windows Media Connect doesn’t understand. None of the formats from Handbrake are recognized by Windows Media Connect. Windows Media Connect is the way Windows did DLNA style media sharing prior to Windows Media Player 11. Windows Home Server uses Windows Media Connect 2.0 to do its built-in sharing.

Hp mediasmart server ex470 server recovery disk