Sage Server, RAID and S3 sleep

[valnar]

I've decided to be frugal on my power consumption now and want to figure out how to make my Sage Server work with S3 standby reliably. My current server is in my sig below.

I believe the first thing that has to go is my RAID card. I'll miss it, but I really don't need it for a home server. I backup all my files to a USB drive, so RAID was just....a toy. I'll move all my hard drives to the ICH7R chip and configure it as JBOD.

I don't think my HDHomeRun will matter, but I'm worried about my PCI Hauppauge PVR-250 boards and SageTV in general. It's been years since I tried S3 sleep, and it failed miserably. My computer would never go to sleep. Something was always running so I gave up, but I'm more determined now.

Is there anything else I should look for? Do people have their Sage Servers working reliably to and from S3 sleep? Do I need to setup Sage in a certain way to make it work? (ie. Service mode, or not service mode, UNC paths, etc.)

[CollinR]

Can't help on your main question but I would suggest NOT doing the JBOD thing, any disk fails and you lose everything. You are better off just having a bunch of drives mapped seperately in Sage.

[valnar]

Correction. Not JBOD as in RAID, just separate disks.

So does anyone have any tips on configuring a Sage server for S3 sleep? Any hardware/tuners that DON'T work with it?

[Graygeek]

I've been doing S3 sleep for several years ... it can be a pain when your trying to figure out why it is not working, but for the power savings and keeping the dust etc. sucked into your system at a minimum I love it. I run two HD100's on a dedicated nic, set to wake the system if a "wake up frame" is seen, (not the same as magic packet). This allows my sleeping server to wake when I turn on any of the HD100's, works great! Then I have power management set to allow the system to re-enter S3 once all activity has stopped for 30 minutes, (HD100's are all off & no recordings in progress). Sage will wake the system for any scheduled recordings ... then when it's back to S3 land.

I also run in service mode with it set to immediately recover if the service stops.

I found USB attached devices to be troublesome after waking from S3. Have had good luck with network devices like HDHomeruns, HAVA and internal tuners like Avermedia M780's, PVR150, Dvico Fusion5 etc .. see my sig.

Andy (babgvant) recently wrote a good article on S3 troubleshooting, posted over at MissingRemote

http://www.missingremote.com/index.p...=4394&Itemid=1

Hope this helps! GG