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Another WHS in an Antec 300 here.

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I used to have lots of small drives, but have collected a few 1TB drives, apart from the 750Gb that I had to use when I lost a Seagate LP recently. That drive is now back from RMA but has not been restored to the pool yet.

Edit: Seems I'm the only one using a small system drive. It's just what I had to hand when I built the WHS, but it seems to be big enough. Since the motherboard is an old skt 754 nForce 250 board and is only SATA 1 it does for my needs. I have most of the parts to upgrade to a new motherboard and newer CPU, but was going to use those parts for WHS v2, but now they've killed off Drive Extender, I may stick with WHS V1 for now.
 
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easyrider said:
what are the unmanaged disks mate?
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The disks form a 3TB spanned volume that I use to backup various video files to. They are removable using an icydock 5-bay enclosure, which makes it quicker to do a backup than over the network to another pc.
 
Hi easyrider,

I see you've been adding to your 2TB disk collection :cool: I'm going to need some more for my main desktop very soon (where I keep a local backup of most of the WHS stuff).

Anyway, to set up a spanned volume:

RDP into your WHS box, go to disk management
Initialise the empty/unmanaged disks as dynamic
Create a new volume by right-clicking in unallocated space and select a spanned volume across the disks you want.
Enjoy!

You can extend a spanned volume, but can't remove an individual disk from the set without losing the data on the volume. Spanned volumes also aren't fault tolerant, so if one disk of the set dies then the whole volume is lost.

If you move a spanned set of disks around between PCs they will show up as 'foreign' in disk management, and you have to 'import foreign disks' to access the data. (That got me a bit nervous the first time I saw it!)

Microsoft's version of some of the above is at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784653(WS.10).aspx

TBH I'd prefer not to use spanned disks like this, but have never found a backup program that quite does what I want. This approach at least lets me do a file hashing backup/verify fairly quickly and without an additional PC left on for no other reason.

Usual caveats about doing things in WHS outside of the console also apply :)
 
wonko said:
Hi easyrider,

I see you've been adding to your 2TB disk collection :cool: I'm going to need some more for my main desktop very soon (where I keep a local backup of most of the WHS stuff).

Anyway, to set up a spanned volume:

RDP into your WHS box, go to disk management
Initialise the empty/unmanaged disks as dynamic
Create a new volume by right-clicking in unallocated space and select a spanned volume across the disks you want.
Enjoy!

You can extend a spanned volume, but can't remove an individual disk from the set without losing the data on the volume. Spanned volumes also aren't fault tolerant, so if one disk of the set dies then the whole volume is lost.

If you move a spanned set of disks around between PCs they will show up as 'foreign' in disk management, and you have to 'import foreign disks' to access the data. (That got me a bit nervous the first time I saw it!)

Microsoft's version of some of the above is at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784653(WS.10).aspx

TBH I'd prefer not to use spanned disks like this, but have never found a backup program that quite does what I want. This approach at least lets me do a file hashing backup/verify fairly quickly and without an additional PC left on for no other reason.

Usual caveats about doing things in WHS outside of the console also apply :)
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Thanks
 
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