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Windows Home Server questions thread
Locust76
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I came here a while back looking for advice on building a home server, but a few days ago I was struck by how similar some of the prebuilt Windows Home Server boxes were to my specifications, so I'm pretty much 90% of the way convinced on getting a WHS box (even downloaded the trial and tested it out in a VM for the weekend, quite nice!)
Anyways, my question was this:
How robust are these things? I really don't like the idea of having the OS installed on one of the storage drives (normally it's a single drive partitioned 20 gigs or so for the OS and the rest for data storage, plus more bays for more drives). Say, for example, the OS takes a dump and I have to reinstall it, is data recovery going to be an issue? Will I be able to recover data from the other drives in the system?
I would throw an extra two 1TB drives in the thing right away in an extended drive with data duplication, for a total of three drives (1x OS/Data, 2x Data). Theoretically, if one of the data drives dies, I should be able to swap it out for a good one and keep on rollin, right? What happens if the OS/Data drive completely dies? Is the Drive Extender system robust enough that I can throw in a new OS/Data drive, reformat and reinstall the OS and it will automatically detect the two Data drives and recover my files?
More will surely follow, but I'll end here for now
Anyways, my question was this:
How robust are these things? I really don't like the idea of having the OS installed on one of the storage drives (normally it's a single drive partitioned 20 gigs or so for the OS and the rest for data storage, plus more bays for more drives). Say, for example, the OS takes a dump and I have to reinstall it, is data recovery going to be an issue? Will I be able to recover data from the other drives in the system?
I would throw an extra two 1TB drives in the thing right away in an extended drive with data duplication, for a total of three drives (1x OS/Data, 2x Data). Theoretically, if one of the data drives dies, I should be able to swap it out for a good one and keep on rollin, right? What happens if the OS/Data drive completely dies? Is the Drive Extender system robust enough that I can throw in a new OS/Data drive, reformat and reinstall the OS and it will automatically detect the two Data drives and recover my files?
More will surely follow, but I'll end here for now
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