Sign me up for the STH newsletter! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Friday, January 14, Sign in. Forgot your password? This process was as easy as transferring folders in Windows and orders of magnitude easier than recovering a RAID array drive. I will note that some drives with major mechanical or firmware problems are totally unreadable making this guide moot.
If one monitors the health of their drives and removes them at the first sign of problems, one has a much higher chance of being able to move data off of the drive before it becomes a complete loss. Easy data transfer from a failing drive is a hallmark of the Windows Home Server platform, and it will be missed. While this guide did not go into hardcore data recovery, I have found that by removing a failing drive early greatly increases the chances that one can recover most of not all data off of the drive.
Hopefully none of my readers will have to experience this, but if they do, I do hope this makes the process a bit easier. The 1. My advice with that drive is to RMA it before your warranty is up if it is not already. Too bad about the RMA. Seagate is fairly to RMA things to so long as your serial number is under warranty. Thanks for this great little tutorial. One question comes to mind after reading, how do you determine if a drive is failing or beginning to have bad blocks?
I assume you are reading info from the software with the areca controller? Unfortunatley, the onboard LSI controller on my setup does not pass smart data to homeserver, and the only drive I can see is the system drive, which is on a sata port, and off the controller. When vail comes out, I plan on upgrading the controller at that time, and would like to make sure there is a way to monitor the drives through the Vail interface. Any thoughts on this? Jason — That is true however some people have shared folders that are not duplicated.
Also, upon failure, you are at risk of losing some of the data if another drive fails duplication of files, even within the same folder, can occur on different disks. It is really a precaution I take but it can also be used if someone decides to stop using WHS to recover data off of the raw drives. One example would be if you re-purposed the base hardware for OpenSolaris based systems and then needed to transfer data on to that system.
Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Windows Home Server Software. Sign in to vote. Neal Blomfield. Dammit Scott, I was hoping you'd have just pulled out a drive to see what happens if a drive fails and report back to us on your success or utter failure.
Then again, I don't have the guts to do it either ;. Karthik Hariharan. Karthik - Heh. I've pulled drives out before. It just turns that bay red, and a dialog pops up on all the machines in the house that a drive has failed.
Then you put a new drive it and it just works. Can you make the drives appear as 1 drive? Is this possible? Parker: doesn't work that way. You don't access the WHS drives directly. You create shared folders just like networking file shares , and WHS takes care of the rest. Therefore, you could create one shared folder, and just start adding stuff to it.
It will just grow as required. You create a share called "Videos", and start dumping stuff into it usually from a "source" system, not from the WHS desktop directly; it's kind of a key point. You don't care about any drive boundaries at the GB mark, in this case.
You just worry about the total available space. As a matter of fact, in this scenario WHS will automatically start replicating data across the 2 drives. Sherman Woo. There are many info about So, watch out. Parker - Sherman's right. It ALL looks like as many shares as you want. Vitaliy - Thanks for the heads up! Or they just don't want us to find them. All very HP, sadly. Pricier but everything here is but cute.
And at least they're prepared to sell the darn things! I love my WHS and think it was one of my best computer purchases ever. When you do the system backup to the external drive was is that backing up and how does the recovery work for that?
My WHS actually failed the first month I had it and the steps HP walked me through to restore it kill my backups and shared folders even though the hd was the same, so I am still a bit nervous about having the only copy of my stuff on the WHS. Thankfully when it died, I didn't have too much stuff on it yet.
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