As I squeeze the life out of my WHS Home Server system, I need to upgrade drives and overall capacity! Everything is working great, so I thought I’d ride this system longer until I need to move the drives to a new server or NAS.
Current system (HP EX490 with 4GB):
4 x 2TB Internal Drives
1 x 4TB External Drive
10.9 TB Capacity / 1.82TB free (approx 370GB per drive)
WHS 2011 - 6.1 (Build 7601 Service Pack 1)
StableBit DrivePool - 1.3.6.7585 - (Duplication turned off due to capacity limitations)
To facilitate this process, I have attached an 8TB drive to the system to increase the pool size and allow other drives to be removed from the pool. (Once I get a couple drives changed out, I’ll remove this and use it internally).
1) Is the ‘remove drive from pool’ the most effective procedure for the 3 non-system drives? Or, can I remove a (non-system) drive from system, one at a time, and copy the contents (pool folder) from the current 2TB drive to the new 8TB drive and reinsert this in the place of the 2TB? Or, will the change in configuration affect anything?
2) How about the system drive? For this, I will use the ‘remove drive from pool’ option for the data partition of this drive. Then I remove the drive, drop in the new 8TB then initiate a server recovery, correct?
3) Once the OS is reinstalled and the system drive is reinserted, then I’d need to reinstall DrivePool? Anything else I need to do to re-establish the pool?
Hopefully this is on the right track - I read through the DrivePool manual but wasn’t sure if I was headed in the right direction and doing this most effeciently!
Thanks for your information and advice! It’s been 5-6 years since my last upgrade … gotta refresh my mind on some of this!
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JeffZ
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