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    This may have been answered in a post and I just don't recognize it as the answer to my question.

    I have:

    1 - 720gb sata drive

    2 - 85gb ata drives

    2 - 40gb ata drives

    1 - 30gb ata drive

    and possibly some other 40 gb drives to add in.

    Would it make sense to take the 85gb drives and mirror them and make them the system drive, or does it make more sense to just make the 720gb the first drive that Home Server gets installed onto.

    I aquired the 720gb basically for free.  I have concern because the drive is so large, if I fill it up and it fails that I will lose a lot of data or spend a long time restoring data...what will Home Server do for me as far as this data being replicated/duplicated ?

    I mainly will be using this server for file storage, media streaming, (home movies/pictures and documents)

    I need to do more reading on how file retention works with Home Server.

     

     

    Monday, March 19, 2007 6:11 PM

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    Basically, you are limited to the caching size (First hard drive size) when transfering files onto the server.  You can only transfer files as big as your caching drive has free.
    Monday, March 19, 2007 10:00 PM
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    MS suggests the first drive (Primary) be the largest hard drive in the system.

    This post has proven VERY informative;

    http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1258811&SiteID=50

    As for the size of the 720GB drive, I've heard (but not experienced) that Seagate's parallel bit technology is working faboulously, but that WD's is not performing as well.

    Hope that helps.

    Monday, March 19, 2007 6:58 PM

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    MS suggests the first drive (Primary) be the largest hard drive in the system.

    This post has proven VERY informative;

    http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1258811&SiteID=50

    As for the size of the 720GB drive, I've heard (but not experienced) that Seagate's parallel bit technology is working faboulously, but that WD's is not performing as well.

    Hope that helps.

    Monday, March 19, 2007 6:58 PM
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    Just out of experience I would make the biggest drive the main drive, but thats just me, its seems to make it simpler and then use the smaller drives for storage of music, pix, vids and what ever else you might have
    • Proposed as answer by lasuchBanned Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:34 PM
    Monday, March 19, 2007 7:10 PM
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    So in reading the link I was given..my understanding is that if I make the 720 the primary drive...I won't actually have that 720 to save data to..

    The 720gb would only be for retention?

     

    Not sure why I keep saying 720...its a 750gb

    • Proposed as answer by lasuchBanned Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:35 PM
    Monday, March 19, 2007 7:58 PM
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    Basically, you are limited to the caching size (First hard drive size) when transfering files onto the server.  You can only transfer files as big as your caching drive has free.
    Monday, March 19, 2007 10:00 PM
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