Planning Ahead

[keefb]

I have a WHS V1 installation feeding an HD200 & W7 client PC over wired ethernet. I have a Hauppauge Nova HD S2 Freesat tuner & a dual TBS 6280. I have separate HDDs for video & recordings outside the WHS drive pool. I use Digiguide with Stephanne's importer & the Birtles grabber as well as BMT & the Web UI.

The server hardware is getting on for 5 years old & I am trying to plan on what to do to replace it when it gives up the ghost & also maintain my Sage set up. I do want to keep going with Sage because there is still nothing out there that's as good.

I guess the 1st decision to make is whether to re-install WHS V1 or upgrade to 2011 bearing mind that I'll need to go for a RAID 5 disk array rather than use drive extender as at present & also get a 2011 licence. I have about 6TB of space spread across 11disks so 3 2TB in RAID 5 isn't too much to bear & also considering that most of the existing smaller disks are 5 years old anyway. I recognise that WHS 2011 is 64 bit only but there appear to be 64 bit drivers available for both the tuners.

I see that people have run Sage sucessfully on Vail but I'm not sure about all the other stuff I'm running.

I hope that a copy of my SageTV directory copied over a re-install of SageTV server, either the WHS version for V1 or the standard server version for WHS 2011 will restore the plugins plus Jetty etc. Obviously, reinstalls of Digiguide, Stephanne & Birtles will be needed.

I hope others on the forum have done this & I seek your advice & any gotchas that have come up.

[jamesdisco]

I read plenty of people had sage working on Vail. But I had trouble with my tbs tuners so went win 7 32bit. I still feel whs v1was more stable though.

[burtonpark]

I have whs 2011 running with sagetv and all the bits fault free for over a year now, three S2 tuner cards with newcs and sky, I actually find it more reliable than the whs v1 setup I had. I run mymovies to rip blu days and have 30tb and counting. Very happy with the setup.