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I recently installed the Windows Home Server Disk Management Add-In thta kypto kindly pointed out in the Windows Home Server - FAQ / Useful Links thread and thought what it showed was interesting.
WHS supposedly treats all your disks as on big disk and balances your files across them, yet this showed that it tends to use two disks until they are almost full before moving to the next:
Disk 2 and 3 (the ones pretty full) are 160GB and 500GB respectively and disk 0 is 500GB. As you see nothing is stored on the other three drives (except for the 4% of space used by the system files) also disk 3 is the disk storing my PC backups, which is why it has more data than disk 2 (backuups not being duplicated).
WHS does not balance your data evenly across all disks. It balances your data across your disks. This ensures your files that are marked for duplication are done.
I, like you, thought the distribution would be across all disks. Seems we both leapt to the same conclusion after reading the info.
I had intended to install the application during the build but never got round to doing it. It will have to wait until July when I am back home again.
from my understanding, WHS should balance the data evenly across your HDDs to reduce the data loss in the event of a HD failure (when you are not duplicating data)
i would check mine, but it currently has Ubuntu on it
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does WHS do any software RAID? Coz it's not really gonna help if it doesn't and one of the disks goes down... you might want to take a look at this, page 17 on.. http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...e_Extender.pdf
Interesting...
