I'm putting together a home file server and am trying to decide between Server 2008 & hardware RAID-6 and Windows Home Server.
I've been reading about the WHS storage pool, and everything I've read mentions folder duplication, but I'm not clear how the O/S handles drive failure in the event that folder duplication is disabled on most/all of the folders on the drive in question.
Basically, there is a reasonable amount of personal data that I would back up, but also a lot of media that I would not - it would be a hassle to re-rip media, but it also wouldn't make much sense to back something up when I already have the original copy safely stored. The way I understand the storage pool is that it's basically glorified drive spanning, so my question is, would the failure of one drive that is not backed up, have any impact on the overall storage pool, or would it just take the files on the bad drive out of circulation and leave the rest intact?
I've been reading about the WHS storage pool, and everything I've read mentions folder duplication, but I'm not clear how the O/S handles drive failure in the event that folder duplication is disabled on most/all of the folders on the drive in question.
Basically, there is a reasonable amount of personal data that I would back up, but also a lot of media that I would not - it would be a hassle to re-rip media, but it also wouldn't make much sense to back something up when I already have the original copy safely stored. The way I understand the storage pool is that it's basically glorified drive spanning, so my question is, would the failure of one drive that is not backed up, have any impact on the overall storage pool, or would it just take the files on the bad drive out of circulation and leave the rest intact?