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WHS Install, 1 drive os and 2 data?

Dahak

Dahak

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Going to be building my WHS probably over the weekend I have 2 x 1tb drives that i'm going to be using for the data. But my question is there any benefit to have a separate drive, in this case is have a spare 160gb drive as well, as the os drive.
 
WHS will take the HD you plan on making the boot drive and take a ~20gb partition on it for the OS, then the rest is for the shares and backups. The simplest way to do it would be install WHS on one of your 1TB drives, that will leave the remaining space on the drive for data, then use folder duplication on your shares and it will copy and protect all the data for you if the system drive fails. RAID will add complexity to the install and restore process so its simpler to use the folder duplication built into WHS. If you have more than 1TB worth of data, this method may not work well for you.
 
I recommend using the 160GB as the OS drive. Gives less of a chance of storing data with the OS partition. I believe WHS uses the OS's data partition first and foremost in storing backups, which is a good thing, because their not worth anything if the server dies, it's the data on the other drives that is.
 
It is better to have your largest drive as the primary disk where it installs the OS partition. This is because it uses this disk when copying data to the remaining drives. So if you have a 160gb disk, the max you can copy to the WHS at a time will be ~140gb. But if you use a 1,000gb disk, the max you can copy is 980gb.
 
Actually my understanding is that they stopped using the Landing Zone idea with one of the power packs. I would use 160gb for the OS drive as well.
 
Fullmetal Chocobo said:
It is better to have your largest drive as the primary disk where it installs the OS partition. This is because it uses this disk when copying data to the remaining drives. So if you have a 160gb disk, the max you can copy to the WHS at a time will be ~140gb. But if you use a 1,000gb disk, the max you can copy is 980gb.
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notposting said:
Actually my understanding is that they stopped using the Landing Zone idea with one of the power packs. I would use 160gb for the OS drive as well.
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You are right notposting. In fact our WHS server as i said has a 160GB IDE drive for it's boot drive, and a 2TB and 1TB for storage. Just added a second 2TB this weekend and copied 600GB of data via esata over night and this limit wasn't a problem at all for it.
 
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