By Philip Churchill on June 09th, 2008
Upgrading Hard Drives on WHS
Blog the OS Quest takes us through the painless task of replacing his Windows Home Server hard disks with the green Western Digital Caviar WD10EACS 1GB drives.
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I’m looking to upgrade my 4x 500gb hdds with 1gb versions too. I figured i dont need the extra 996gb storage. hehe.
I also can’t count it seems 😛
I don’t believe you can use that technique to replace the disk with the OS partition. I’d like to see someone do a write up on how to do that.
its actually relay easy simply make sure u have the equivalent amount of space that is used up on the drives u want to replace and then click on the drives u want to remove and select remove disk(from the disk pool) in storage tab on your whs so for example now u have added 2 1tb hds to your pool when u click “remove” on the disks that u want to remove all data on those disks will be dispensed to what ever drives have available space in your disk pool
the only thing is u need to have a few extra sata ports so u can have all disks plugged in at the same time
worst case just use a hd enclosure (usb or e sata) but most mother boards should have a few extra sata ports
what i am not sure of is if u use a usb the remove the data of f the drive then try to plug it in to whs via sata with all your data on it if whs will see it as drive that was on there before or as a new drive so best bet is to have everything plugged into the mobo for the transfer
hope that helps