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One Arm Manny posted:2011 has software RAID but is lacking the drive pooling feature of V1 without add-ins. WHS V1 doesn't support 3Tb drives so you would pretty much have to use 2011 unless you have some sort of hardware RAID controller and skipped the pooling feature altogether. Even then I'm not sure if V1 could use all that space as a single volume. I could be wrong there. This isn't entirely true, there is a hack to make WHS v1 support 3TB drives. It's a bit of a process, detailed here but once done, you can use 3TB drives with no problems. I just added a pair of 3TB drives to my server to replace 4 aging 500GB drives and the process went very smoothly.
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2011 04:47 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:02 |
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savesthedayrocks posted:Going to buy a new drive to replace a failing one. Just wanted an opinion from the group. This is on whsv1 Go with the internal drive and buy a cheap enclosure to go with it if you want to test the old one. There's a good chance that enclosure won't work with any other drives, and also a possibility that the drive in the enclosure won't have the proper SATA connections on it. Plus, if you remove the drive from the enclosure you're voiding the warranty, so you'd be out $139 if it craps out right away.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2012 16:28 |
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If I remember correctly from when I had a failing drive, the .dat files are the backup files from one or several of the computers you have backing up to WHS. If it can't recover them all, you'll have to repair the backup database to get things functioning again. If you have the physical space in your server for another drive, I'd get an advanced RMA from WD so you have another drive to copy your stuff onto.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2012 16:30 |
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modeski posted:This might not be the right thread, but what's the best way for me to extract as much data as possible from the failing drive? I have it in a spare computer now, running chkdsk /r. Hopefully that'll get it in a state where I can try copying as much data as possible. WHS v1 uses a standard NTFS format with a hidden folder with all the data. Just mount the drive and go to ?:\DE\Shares and you'll see all the data that was saved on this drive.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2012 16:00 |
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modeski posted:Question - should I format the drive? I don't want anyone seeing the data that is still on there, but then I want to make sure they can see the drive is faulty. Absolutely format the drive if you're worried about someone seeing the data on the drive. The hardware error will still be there after the format.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2012 20:01 |