I have installed WHS 11 on my HP EX470 and have a 750GB system drive and want to add more drives. Has the capacity changed now that I'm using WHS 11 or is it a hardware limitation?

Also, I'd like to upgrade the processor, but I've read not to waste my time with a dual core. All of the processor upgrades are a couple of years old now. Is there a processor that most of the forum finds to be the best price/performance for the EX470?

Thanks ahead of time.

2TB drives are the biggest you can use, and see the EX47x forum for discussion on the CPU upgrade.

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Thank you sir!

Running WHS 2011, you should be able to use 3TB drives

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HP EX490, 4 GIG, Q9400S, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Mediaserver
HP EX485, 4 GIG, Q8200S, WHS 2011, ITUNES Server

Lol, I was on the checkout page on Newegg when this notification popped up, thanks! I'll need to confirm this however, but I appreciate the heads up!

I run 3TB GPT formated drives on my EX485 and have had no problems at all. I don't back up my drives except to another server, so I'm not affected by Microsoft. I believe when you have WHS format the drives it does 2 partitions - one 2TB and one 1 TB on each drive but I GPT format them and use all on one partition. It has to do with the max WHS can backup internally to the system and I believe that's 2TB.

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HP EX470, 4 GIG, 4200+ EE SFF, WHS V1, Production
HP EX485, 4 GIG, E5800, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Transfer Server, Backup Server
HP EX490, 4 GIG, Q9400S, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Mediaserver
HP EX485, 4 GIG, Q8200S, WHS 2011, ITUNES Server

Thanks, I think I'll stick with 2TB, although now I read that all of the drives need to be the same size or is that outside of the OS drive?

No, the drives need not be the same size. You have wide latitude on what you use.

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HP EX470, 4 GIG, 4200+ EE SFF, WHS V1, Production
HP EX485, 4 GIG, E5800, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Transfer Server, Backup Server
HP EX490, 4 GIG, Q9400S, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Mediaserver
HP EX485, 4 GIG, Q8200S, WHS 2011, ITUNES Server

Thanks again Any recommendations for 2TB drives. I prefer WD, but not sure about using the green series.

I'm not nuts about WD EARS drives, I've had too many fail when relatively new. Have gone pretty much to Hatachi drives, they seem to run trouble free.

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HP EX470, 4 GIG, 4200+ EE SFF, WHS V1, Production
HP EX485, 4 GIG, E5800, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Transfer Server, Backup Server
HP EX490, 4 GIG, Q9400S, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Mediaserver
HP EX485, 4 GIG, Q8200S, WHS 2011, ITUNES Server

I have not had a WD Green Drive fail on me yet but I no longer buy them for my servers. Like erail I too use Hitachi Drives but also WD Black Drives when the price is right.

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Migrated from WHS2011 to WS2012E: HIGHLANDER

~ Norco 4220 Enclosure
~ Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
~ AMD Phenom II X4 995 3.2 GHz
~ 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
~ 3 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

Instead of starting a new topic I'll ask this one here:

How should I go about best utilizing my space? Should I move the shared folders onto one of the 2TB drives? I'm assuming I can back up one of the 2TB drives with the other drive? I'm not really finding too many best practices with the hardware and software combination that I'm using, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

You could do what your looking to do but I think you should give plenty of thought to how your data is stored on your server to best utilize it current drive capacity and maintain a backup. I do think you will miss the simplicity of DE as I do but there is light at the end of the tunnel with the continued developement of Stablebit Drive Pool and Drive Bender the DE replacement software currently in beta. I think if you can wait abit longer and wait for Stablebit to come out of beta your question will be answered with that software.

I do encourage you to take a close look at Stablebit but also look at DriveBender to see which might be more appealing to you. I have run Stablebit and found it to be more user friendly than DE ever was but its still in beta but looks very promising. I continue to run my WHSv1 server which also has my data and is set for duplication and yes its also on my WHS2011 server named Highlander which gets heavy access and its all good but until I see a fully working DE Option for Highlander I will not shut down my WHSv1 server as its my insurance policy of sorts and I have remote access to both servers so my data is accessable from 2 locations.

One last thing I would urge you to do and that is keep your current WHSv1 drives in tact and install other drives to use WHS2011 until your comfortable with it. I am not on the WHS2011 bandwagon and still feel WHSv1 will server the general end use better with its simplicity. While WHS2011 is very nice and does perform well its not a full out of the box solution as was WHSv1.

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Exploring the possibilities!

Migrated from WHS2011 to WS2012E: HIGHLANDER

~ Norco 4220 Enclosure
~ Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
~ AMD Phenom II X4 995 3.2 GHz
~ 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
~ 3 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

Comp, thanks for the great reply!

A bit of background: I acquired this server for free, with no software as the previous owner lost it in his last move and he needed to unload some hardware. So, this is why I purchased WHS2011 and got it for $50 shipped. I really couldn't find where I could purchase the original software for the EX470, so I'm not familiar with DE, but now will do some research on the add-ins you spoke of. Thank you!

So I decided to try Stablebit out today and installed the BetaM3. I wanted to have a back up of my Music folder so I pooled two new 2TB drives then moved the Music folder to them. I left while it was moving data only to come back an hour later and saw a permissions error. Curious, I looked in the music folder and instead of almost 100GB of music, I was left with one folder (The Police) that was empty. Not sure what happened there, but I'm glad I didn't delete the source where I have been keeping my music files.