Hello everyone,
I sent the following to WHSBeta@microsoft.com because one of my hard drives ended up having a bad sector.
I am a beta tester for Windows Home Server Beta 2. I noticed a bad sector on one of my hard drives. I replaced it and it works fine. I Would like to see the following added to Windows Home Server to enhance the product’s hard drive health and data integrity:
1. As part of hard drive maintenance, monitor hard drive health by looking for bad sectors.
2. If a sector error is found, give the user the choice (prompt or automatically) perform a hard drive recovery mode.
3. This recovery mode would transfer the remaining data to other hard drives.
4. After data has been transferred, The O/S would mark the hard drive as unreliable or bad, and bar it from ever being used in the operating system. Enforcing data integrity.
I believe this would be a great product enhancement.
Sincerely,
Joe G