Hi... I'm new here and not very much of a techie, but hope I can get some help.
I have an HP EX 470 that now has three drives installed as storage adding up to 3 1/2 TB. I just purchased a 4 TB WD Green drive to add to my last slot and use as backup. When going through the process, I got a message that the drive needed to be partitioned. There are 3 laptops connected to the network with the server.
This might be a silly question, but how do I physically partition the drive, and how do I do it so the whole drive is used for backup.

Thanks for any help.
Glenn

Well,
If you are using whs v1.
It only supports drives =<2tb for the storage pool.
Now if you add it as a backup drive you could get 3-4TB.
However if it is a a advanced format drive. Then it probably will bark back at you.
What you could try is format it in your pc and add it to the server as a backup without formatting.

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Hi Glenn

I tried to add a 4TB drive as a backup drive but it wouldn't work with WHS V1. My EX470 would recognize the 4TB backup drive but once I got over 2TB of files backed up to the 4TB drive the EX470 would hang. Removing the 4TB drive would allow me to restart my EX470.

Check out this thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12573&start=90

Bert

Okay... I understand, thanks for the quick responses.
Can I update WHS version to a later version and if so, what are the steps involved?

Glenn

I would save that 4 tb drive for something else. I tried two WD red 4 tb drives formatted GPT as non-pooled drives for backup, worked great till the data went over 2tb and they hung and went raw and I ended up having to send them in to get replaced.
You could install WHS 2011 but you will need the VGA cable and I don't think the ex-470 would be worth it.

Plus, IMHO, I'm a green drive hater, a greed WD was the first WD drive I had fail on me.
I use all red drives now.

Good Luck.

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