![]() I have been through a couple of these system reinstalls in 6 or so yrs and I would like a more robust maintainable system. This would also protect the system backups from being lost if a data drive fails. I could probably RAID all the disks and have maybe 3 to 4T total capacity and then turn off folder duplication. My intent is to Mirror the boot drive with a couple of 1T drives and then use maybe 4 to 6, 2T drives as my data drives and just let WHS deal with duplicating folders on them. However, I have found out that for some reason it won't do a fresh install on a 2T drive but it will let you use them as data drives. I have a bunch of 2T black series drives that are new or almost new. I don't mind buying a copy if it solves anything. I am not sure would be gaining much there. I think that WHS 2011 has the same issues with not being able to easily restore the boot drive. It sees the drive but not as part of the communal D drive that has all the data. An image restored to a new drive will boot just fine but it will be missing the data portion of that drive. Boot drives will eventually fail and a RAID system would give me redundancy. If you loose a part of the backup database it hoses the whole system. I would prefer not to loose these backups. I won't loose data on shared folders if I have them duplicated but all the computer backups that I have that are stored on the data partition of the boot drive will be lost on an image of the old drive to a new drive. ![]() I can restore an image of the boot drive to a new drive but WHS does not see the part of the drive that is data which is most of the drive. Can I just mirror the boot drive and run the data drives as normal disks? The problem is that WHS partitions the boot disk as a boot partition that is 20G or so and then the rest is a data drive that is part of the drive pool. This would protect me from having to install the complete OS if the boot drive fails. What I was wanting to do is to Mirror a completely new boot drive install using RAID. ![]()
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