Sign in
Microsoft.com
 
Microsoft
 
 
 

locked
Dedicated System Drive (NOT PART OF THE DATA STORAGE!) RRS feed

 > 

  • Question

  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote
    I have a 80gb SSD drive that I want to use as the system drive, and I do not want it to be part of the storage system.  This does not seem to be an option during the install.  It automatically partitions the drive with a 20/60 split.  Using the 20GB as the system and the 60GB as part of the storage array.  I have 25TB of other drives that I am using for storage.  I want the SSD drive to be dedicated to the system, this is my 2nd WHS build and my first one almost had a disaster when I had an issue with the system drive.  I managed to get it working again, but I told myself for future builds, I will always keep the system drive separate so I can comfortably re-format or replace it without worrying about my data.  Is there any way to do this?
    Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:40 AM

Answers

  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    1
    Sign in to vote
    If you have at least Power Pack 1 installed, and if you have at least two additional drives, and if these drives provide enough disk space to hold the client backups, the shared folders and a copy of duplicated folders on a separate drive, all you will find on the DATA volume of the system disk will be the tombstones for controlling the file access (which are no real data, but necessary to provide the complete disk space as transparent storage).
    Those tombstones will be rebuilt during a server reinstall.

    The need for a large system disk has been removed with Power Pack 1, since the so called Landing Zone is no longer existant.

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf
    • Proposed as answer by kariya21Moderator Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:11 AM
    • Marked as answer by wallspc Friday, November 20, 2009 12:37 AM
    Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:34 AM
    Moderator

All replies

  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote
    Ok, I cam across this blog post:


    Is what he is saying correct?  Should I use a larger disk?  This is a bit confusing, I feel like at least part of what he is saying is wrong.  He is saying he can't transfer files larger then 20GB because thats the size of his system disk.  Well the 20GB system disk is what happens regardless of the actually size of the system disk.  I used a 1TB system disk for my first WHS build and it also used a 20GB system, and I was able to copy 40+GB bluray rips without any issues. 
    Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:55 AM
  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote
    He also talks about being able to reinstall WHS if you loose your system disk and that the part of the drive in the storage pool does not have any actual data on it so nothing will be lost.  Is this also true?  The incident I had in my first post, was the system disk reporting issues, and I was able to run the disk repair to correct them without having to do a re-install - but I thought the worst when it came to that re-install with 900GB of the system disk being part of this storage array. I thought that random chunks of my data would be on that part of the system disk and everything would be worthless without those chunks.  
    Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:58 AM
  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    1
    Sign in to vote
    If you have at least Power Pack 1 installed, and if you have at least two additional drives, and if these drives provide enough disk space to hold the client backups, the shared folders and a copy of duplicated folders on a separate drive, all you will find on the DATA volume of the system disk will be the tombstones for controlling the file access (which are no real data, but necessary to provide the complete disk space as transparent storage).
    Those tombstones will be rebuilt during a server reinstall.

    The need for a large system disk has been removed with Power Pack 1, since the so called Landing Zone is no longer existant.

    Best greetings from Germany
    Olaf
    • Proposed as answer by kariya21Moderator Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:11 AM
    • Marked as answer by wallspc Friday, November 20, 2009 12:37 AM
    Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:34 AM
    Moderator
  • Question
    Sign in to vote
    0
    Sign in to vote
    Thank you Olaf, You have addressed all of my concerns.  The system has 15x 2TB drives along with the SSD so this should be no problem :)
    Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:11 AM