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    Must the system drive be part of the shared storage pool?

    I'd planned to install a smallish drive (160G) for SYSTEM ONLY, then install (2) 1.5T drives for shared storage, with room for (2) more in the future.

    It now looks like A- the SYSTEM DRIVE *MUST* be a part of the shared storage pool; furthermore it looks like B- all home PC backups go on the SYSTEM DRIVE, which would indicate it be a fatter drive than the other(s), not smaller.

    Is this so?  Any comments are quite welcome!

    Thx,
    RG
    Sunday, May 24, 2009 5:09 AM

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    Yes, the system drive must be part of the storage pool. In a server with only one disk, the second (DATA) partition on the system drive is the storage pool. However, backups are not automatically placed on the system drive. There are a number of conditions which can lead to some components of the backup database residing on the system drive, but for most users, the backup database is not there.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Sunday, May 24, 2009 12:41 PM
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    Yes, the system drive must be part of the storage pool. In a server with only one disk, the second (DATA) partition on the system drive is the storage pool. However, backups are not automatically placed on the system drive. There are a number of conditions which can lead to some components of the backup database residing on the system drive, but for most users, the backup database is not there.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Sunday, May 24, 2009 12:41 PM
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    Ah! So it's true then that I /cannot/ exclude the system drive from the storage pool. However I was wrong to worry about our PC backups being on the system drive; it's a moot point since the system drive is not excludable from the storage array!

    Thanks for the assist!

    ( And seriously, would /anyone/ have a single drive server!?!?!? :O )


    Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:58 PM
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    ( And seriously, would /anyone/ have a single drive server!?!?!? :O )


    Well, HP ships them that way (though they also have a two disk version). Acer's new WHS offering (No, I don't know where you can get one; it was theoretically released a couple of days ago in the US) will also have a single disk version. The major loss with only a single disk is share duplication, and a lot of the purchasers of Windows Home Server systems don't understand that feature well enough to determine if they really want it or not. :)
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Sunday, May 24, 2009 9:43 PM
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