Hi,
I only recently and too late discovered that the new generation of WD disks use 4k blocks instead of 512. The product code differs in one letter and with a lower price and larger buffer I aquired three 2TB units. I only realize now that this is not
supported by WHS. Still, I am up and running, even with the WHS partition on one of them.
So it actually does work, but probably causes the system to slow down, particularly during large file transfers. Speed varies from 10 to 80 MB/s. And at times complete standstill for 20 secs in file manager. Otherwise I do not get any indication that
things are not what they should.
A hard learned lesson with WHS is to stay away from anything not supported. So I need to apply a jumper and start all over. For the data disks of course no problem and I understand from the threads in this forum that there is a way of cloning the system
disk. But I don't want that. Rather I will do a reinstall. I plan to take out the disk, put the jumper in place, reformat it on a client and put it back for reinstall.
My question is the following.
Given that all folders are duplicated, will the reinstall take care of the data partition on the system disk? Or will I have to put it aside and reload it after system regeneration?
I know that this topic is treated in depth elsewhere in this forum, but with all the ifs and buts I would appreciate any reaction to this.
Thank you.
