e_dogg

WHS sees your hard drives all as one storage pool. It creates a ~20gb partition for the OS (C:\ volume) and then treats the rest as just one massive volume (D:\). You won't be creating folders in Windows Explorer like you do on other operating systems. There's a console application which allows you to create top-level shares and then you can create sub-folders within those like normal.

So, that said, you don't need a specific OS drive or anything.

I'd go with the Green drives to save on power bills...also, if you can find the Green RE2 drives, I'd go with that. I found mine on eBay for a great price but they're hard to come by.

Looks pretty good to me!

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tagurtoast

so hows this work if i add new drives or take old ones out and wheres the redundancy?

i think i will buy seagate 1.5tb drives for 177 or look on ebay for some cheap deals

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e_dogg

When you add drives, WHS identifies the new drive as part of the storage pool and increases the size accordingly.

Here's a real good thread discussing WHS Folder Duplication vs. RAID: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/e...c-270ba5dbf511

In the Management Console (client app that you install on your desktop/laptop), there's a checkbox that lets you select individual folders and subfolders to be duplicated. Once that checkbox is selected, the folder is stored on 2 disks. If one disk fails, the copy is still on the other one.

This process is completely behind the scenes and transparent. If you want to see what is duplicated where, this add-in is available: http://mswhs.com/2008/08/06/add-in-d...ion-info-1200/

Also, check out this site for more add-ins. There are some really cool ones available: http://www.whsplus.com/

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tagurtoast

yeah i am thinking i will go with whs but dam the 150 dollar price tag sucks

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e_dogg

Yeah, the price tag does suck...but if you can afford it, it's a pretty sweet OS.

Think of it this way - you're not spending as much on the CPU and Mobo so you can take the money you were planning on spending there and put it toward the OS.

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tagurtoast

lol yeah but now dad doesnt want to use my a900 for a case as it is "too big" so i have to find a nice quiet good airflow lots of hdd space cheap case

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the_beast

WHS is pretty much the cheapest version of Windows you can buy. Not bad for an OS which has much of the functionality (at least as far as is useful in most homes) and the stability of Server 2003.

Are you a student? If so, check out Dreamspark. You can get Server 2003 or 2008 (plus some other goodies) fully licenced for free. Sadly no WHS though.

tagurtoast

yeah im in school (im 13) but windows server is too hardcore for me like its too big scale

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