WHS and advanced format drives

pioneer2000 · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:07

I've got a few WD20EARS 2TB drives and was hoping to put them in a Windows home server machine... do these not work within WHS? Or is it the case of setting jumpers 7&8?

kae2 · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:10

WHS V1 or 2011?

pioneer2000 · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:16

Venares · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:49

Unfortunately the original WHS will not support Advanced Format drives natively.
You are however in luck as your drives are WD20EARS.
The WD drives have a jumper that you can put on pins 7 & 8 to make them operate like an older drive.

Windows Home Server – Adding Advanced Format Drives To The Storage Pool

pioneer2000 · 22 Jun 2011 at 22:05

Do you lose any capacity or speed by doing this?

Venares · 22 Jun 2011 at 22:43

Drives will perform ever so slightly slower jumpered.
TBH you will never notice unless your the kind of person that likes to spend all there time benchmarking drives

PhillyDee · 22 Jun 2011 at 22:51

With WHS the performance means very little anyway. You would not notice!

pioneer2000 · 22 Jun 2011 at 23:06

Thanks guys.

Venares - A bit off topic, but have just noticed you have exactly the same CPU / RAM / Mobo as me.

If you get a chance, can you post up your bios settings as i've found 4Ghz impossible to maintain as a stable overclock... would be much appreciated!

Also, can someone explain how I can check that my sector size is set correctly? HDtach reports 512kb sector size.... and the drives seems pretty slow...