I'm new the the WHS scene, so this may seen basic, but I've not been able to find anything on this in any forums.
I recently bought a WHS from Costco, and it came with an extra 500gig HD. The drive had not been partitioned or formatted, so I went through that scenario. Not knowing exactly what I was doing, the drive was formatting as a 'dynamic' drive. This drive was added to my storage pool, and seems to be working well in the pool, and as the duplicate drive.
Before I assume all is totally fine...did I format the drive appropriately as a dynamic drive?
Tips or advice for partitioning/formatting my next drive?
Lastly, I have a couple of older drives (I 'think' they're SATAs) that I'm removing from another machine. Should I go ahead and add those to my WHS pool, or should I wait and install a new drive when needed?
It Should be a basic ntfs disk, even in the enterprise world. Dynamic disks are rarely used as they have their own rules and can create problems.
You add hard drives via the Server Storage tab in the WHS console. A new drive will show as an entry as an available disk with the option to add it to the pool or use it as a back up disk. Add it via this, no other actions are required.
It Should be a basic ntfs disk, even in the enterprise world. Dynamic disks are rarely used as they have their own rules and can create problems.
You add hard drives via the Server Storage tab in the WHS console. A new drive will show as an entry as an available disk with the option to add it to the pool or use it as a back up disk. Add it via this, no other actions are required.
OK...at the moment, I've added the dynamic disk to the pool. I could remove it via the console, and redo the disk into a basic ntfs disk. Can someone give me a quick 1, 2, 3 how I might go about doing this?
I would have just added the disk to the pool from the onset, but for some reason the console didn't recognize the drive; hence, I partitioned and formatted it.
Thank you in advance for your assistance with this.
