At the beginning of the month I wrote about my Windows Home Server hard drive problems and at the time I was waiting for WHS to finish removing the bad drive from its storage pool. When I posted the article I was letting Windows Home Server run through the drive removal process while I slept. I had pulled the plug on the bad drive since it brought the server to its knees and was now trying to remove the traces of it from the pool. When I woke up in [...] Read the rest »
School of Hard (Drive) Knocks
One of the problems with having a Windows Home Server with 12 hard drives is that hard drives do fail and there’s a dozen chances for that to happen. Add to that the 18TB of data those drives can hold and things are further complicated. The odds are not in my favor and it’s only a matter of time. I’d been thinking about that recently and had just begun looking at ways to monitor the drive health when I came across some health problems while testing out some tools. I [...] Read the rest »
