Norco is very good at replacing defective parts. Call them and tell them the problem. They love to see pictures of defects if the defect is visible and they'll want to see your purchase invoice.

@ Cavediver,

So with the news of DE (and assuming all the community uproar doesn't change a thing), what are you thinking about for the future to replace Andromeda?

I don't know yet. And I'm having trouble adding the last 2 of 32 DE drives to Andromeda. I added drives 29 & 30 last weekend without any problems and have been trying to add the last two since last night, but I'm getting several errors when I try to add the last 2 drives. The first error is that the drive cannot be formatted because another process or service is using the drive, then I get an error that the storage manager service has stopped and then an error message that the backup service has stopped. When I pull the last two drives, everything works fine. I've been looking around at alternatives, but whatever it is I'm going to have to learn a whole new ball game. I'm extremely disappointed with MS and their antics with WHS.

Quick Q cavediver,

Since I can't use the backplanes atm (need to get them replaced)... I was thinking of hooking up the drives to the internal sata ports. Since I was gonna hook up 4 drives from 1 backplane to the mobo ports using the reverse breakout cable, how is the port arranged on the backplane. I was looking at the back of the backplane and I see it labeled as HDD1-4 (from right to left). The reverse breakout cable is labeled 0-1-2-3. So, im guessing HDD-1 = 0, HDD-2 = 1 and so forth? If I hook up HD's to sata ports 1 and 2 and once I get the replacement backplanes, I can just hook up the drives from right to left?

JB

I don't know yet. And I'm having trouble adding the last 2 of 32 DE drives to Andromeda. I added drives 29 & 30 last weekend without any problems and have been trying to add the last two since last night, but I'm getting several errors when I try to add the last 2 drives. The first error is that the drive cannot be formatted because another process or service is using the drive, then I get an error that the storage manager service has stopped and then an error message that the backup service has stopped. When I pull the last two drives, everything works fine. I've been looking around at alternatives, but whatever it is I'm going to have to learn a whole new ball game. I'm extremely disappointed with MS and their antics with WHS.

I think the reason why you may not be able to get the 2 maybe due to the 3ware cable you used. If the drives your trying to add are on the backplane you are using that 3ware reverse breakout cable then I would change it out if you have the available SATA ports on your motherboard with NORCO C-SFF8087-4S Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Cable or other similar cable. Here is the one offered by Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6816133033

I am not certain if I am correct or not but I do remember your using the 3ware cable to connect one of your backplanes to the motherboard and it has only 2 SATA Connectors on it not the 4 like the cable I mentioned. Kindly let me know if I am right about the cable connection on your server. If I am right then you should be able to correct it. If I am wrong I apologize in advance.

For me I opted to go with 3 MV8's on my current build.