There are obvious plus points for the SQA-5H, it can hold 5 disks, and that it’s out in the UK now (which is important as I’m impatient!)…but I like what I see with the EX485 and the seemingly more polished software provided! Guess I’ll just have to see how long HP take to make the unit available in the UK…if it looks like a lengthy delay then the SQA-5H may well get my vote!

I have tested the SQA-5H with LightsOut and it did wake up over the internet. When you first try to open your homeserver page you get a ‘page not found’ message, obviously because it’s still waking up. When you refresh that page after 5 to 10 seconds it shows. This may depend on the network card (NIC) and it’s settings as well as your router.
- NIC 1: LightsOut manual says to enable the ‘Only allow management stations to bring the computer out of standby’ on the power management tab. A router is not a management station, you enable to also prevent the whs to wakeup when the router does a network scan. In this case, you actually want your router to wake up your whs. There is one disadvantage though, and that is that you also have foreigners trying to access your whs webpage and that of course also does wake up the whs. (You see that on the LightsOut uptime diagram). Some interesting reading on that is here: http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/2009/01/06/how-to-analyze-website-log-files-from-your-whs/. I did not yet try to enable it to see what happens.
- NIC 2: the NIC has an advanced tab for ‘Wake-on-Lan capabilities’. The LightsOut manual says to choose ‘Magic Package’. On mine there is also a ‘Packet Match’ option and a combi of both. LightsOut uses the magic packet, but I chose the combi option. More on that here: http://forum.wegotserved.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5469. I did not yet try to use only ‘magic package’ to see what happens.
- Router: when you visit your whs webpage, the request comes in on your router and then forwarded to the whs. I don’t know how it works, but is somehow needs to send a magic package or patern match or something for the whs server to wake up. I have a Zyxel Prestige 2602HW-61.

Originally Posted By ChrisDoes anyonoe know how this compares to the HP MediaSmart EX485 soon to be released? I’ve got some (probably ill-conceived) perceptions of the EX485′s Celeron Processor being insufficient long term, and it’s also 32-bit which isn’t exactly future proof should MS release a 64-bit version of WHS in the future. In relation to the LightsOut Add-in, does anyone know if this can be setup to work remotely? (i.e. whist away from home) Any feedback would be appreciated.

I have the SQA-5H and am happy with it. Don’t know about the HP. The only ‘issue’ there is with the SQA-5H is that it’s front panel (with the status leds) currently does not support waking up from hibernation (which is what happens with LightsOut). This means that the boot led keeps blinking. Tranquil is working on a fix for that. See here for more on that http://forum.wegotserved.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=5163&view=findpost&p=32878.

I have tested the SQA-5H with LightsOut and it did wake up over the internet. When you first try to open your homeserver page you get a ‘page not found’ message, obviously because it’s still waking up. When you refresh that page after 5 to 10 seconds it shows. This may depend on the network card (NIC) and it’s settings as well as your router.
- NIC 1: LightsOut manual says to enable the ‘Only allow management stations to bring the computer out of standby’ on the power management tab. A router is not a management station, you enable to also prevent the whs to wakeup when the router does a network scan. In this case, you actually want your router to wake up your whs. There is one disadvantage though, and that is that you also have foreigners trying to access your whs webpage and that of course also does wake up the whs. (You see that on the LightsOut uptime diagram). Some interesting reading on that is here: http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/2009/01/06/how-to-analyze-website-log-files-from-your-whs/. I did not yet try to enable it to see what happens.
- NIC 2: the NIC has an advanced tab for ‘Wake-on-Lan capabilities’. The LightsOut manual says to choose ‘Magic Package’. On mine there is also a ‘Packet Match’ option and a combi of both. LightsOut uses the magic packet, but I chose the combi option. More on that here: http://forum.wegotserved.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5469. I did not yet try to use only ‘magic package’ to see what happens.
- Router: when you visit your whs webpage, the request comes in on your router and then forwarded to the whs. I don’t know how it works, but is somehow needs to send a magic package or patern match or something for the whs server to wake up. I have a Zyxel Prestige 2602HW-61.

I think there is a typo in the review under “Easy Home Server Backup”. It says

… This drive does become part of the overall storage pool, but is used purely for backups…

That is actually not the case. The backup drive you add must be configured as a “Server backup Hard Drive”, it must not be added to the Storage Hard Drives.

Thanks
JeePee

Can you confirm it can handle both these operations??

(I usee losless encoding – so my music file sizes are large!!)

Cheers,
Dan.

Originally Posted By JohnSo the first question is the ability to put this to sleep and wake up itself (or via Lan).

Yes, that should be possible with the LightOut addin
http://www.home-server-blog.de/add-ins/strom-und-laufzeitverwaltung/lightsout/#en

I order my SQ5 yesterday so haven’t been able to try myself yet

JP