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10 Hd Limit?

Started by Jeff Flowerday, Apr 26 2010 08:41 PM

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Jeff Flowerday
Posted 26 April 2010 - 08:41 PM

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I've been reading a few reports that the beta is limited to 10 HDs in the pool? Boy I sure hope they lift this for RTM.

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Posted 26 April 2010 - 09:59 PM

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We can ask the question and hopefully provide you an answer...

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Posted 26 April 2010 - 10:32 PM

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I read that too...seems silly as hard drives are coming down in price too....i also read that each drive must me 60gb...which would have never worked for me originally as i had 4 - 40gb drives when i first built my whs...

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Posted 26 April 2010 - 11:37 PM

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10 drive limit would definitely make Vail a non-starter for me.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 12:05 AM

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View PostJ_P_A, on 26 April 2010 - 11:37 PM, said:

10 drive limit would definitely make Vail a non-starter for me.

I agree, i have internal expansion plans of 10 drives..plus the system drive (or drives in my case...lol)...plus external drives...a major problem if the limit exists...

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 12:25 AM

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View Postcainmp, on 27 April 2010 - 12:05 AM, said:

I agree, i have internal expansion plans of 10 drives..plus the system drive (or drives in my case...lol)...plus external drives...a major problem if the limit exists...


I would be interested to know how many drives the average WHS user has, or plans to use. I suspect there are two pretty distinct groups; those that need one or two drives at most (gotta have duplication, right?) and those that have growing data storage needs that will need 10, 20, 30 + drives. The case that comes to mind is digital media, which IIRC is one of WHS's major advertisement points. "The Center of Your Digital Life" or some such. Hard to be at the center if you don't have enough space to hold it all. <_<

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 12:41 AM

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I've started a poll to answer this very question:

http://forum.wegotse...__0

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 01:35 AM

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minimum of 60GB for HDD, 10 max for drives doesn't seem too crippling... worst case... RAID! And off to hyperV to test my Vail server.... 10 HDD limit, hrmpf, well see.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 02:19 AM

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yeah, hardcoded limit. "Add to storage" doesn't do anything after the 10th. And that's the system plus 9. Though you *can* remove the system drive from the storage pool! :) And you can have multiple server backup disks.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 04:55 AM

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I'm at 12 HDs right now, so unless things change at RTM, I'll have to stick with WHS1 and then down the road completely rethink my media server.

It's a real shame to limit it to 10HDs especially in today's High Def age.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 05:35 AM

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Well, from your signature, it looks like "10" HDDs. :)


I know i've already said it, it's a beta, post a "bug" about it, and hopefully it will change. If nobody does, it can't.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 09:54 AM

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To be fair, 20TB as a maximum storage pool is a pretty colossal amount...

Still, I'd like to know why that limit is there... it seems like a very odd decision.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 01:13 PM

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Maybe MS increases this limit, read here http://social.micros...88-2fc7cc794d53

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 02:05 PM

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View PostDrashna Jaelre (WGS), on 27 April 2010 - 05:35 AM, said:

Well, from your signature, it looks like "10" HDDs. :)


I know i've already said it, it's a beta, post a "bug" about it, and hopefully it will change. If nobody does, it can't.


Busted! 11 hard drives, I counted my RAID 1 as individual drives. Updated my signature.

Microsoft reps said the 10 drives, is a beta thing, currently it's unstable above 10. So hopefully they get it stable. :)

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 02:06 PM

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View Postsnootyjim, on 27 April 2010 - 09:54 AM, said:

To be fair, 20TB as a maximum storage pool is a pretty colossal amount...

Still, I'd like to know why that limit is there... it seems like a very odd decision.


Not if you turn duplication on.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 06:00 PM

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Well, we'll call it 10TB then... and I'd still call that a fairly large amount of storage. And as hard drive sizes increase, so will that number.

I'm not defending MS, or saying they should leave the cap because "nobody will ever reach that amount" - of course they will. But it is a colossal amount of storage for a home user.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 06:05 PM

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http://social.micros...0f-a4eee49636cb

Check the second reply in the thread, the one by "BulatS". This is a limit for just the beta it would appear.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 06:51 PM

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View Postsnootyjim, on 27 April 2010 - 06:00 PM, said:

Well, we'll call it 10TB then... and I'd still call that a fairly large amount of storage. And as hard drive sizes increase, so will that number.

I'm not defending MS, or saying they should leave the cap because "nobody will ever reach that amount" - of course they will. But it is a colossal amount of storage for a home user.


I think that depends on what your purpose is in having a server. If it is to store a collection of Blue-Ray movies. . .

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:55 AM

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View Postscywin, on 27 April 2010 - 06:51 PM, said:

I think that depends on what your purpose is in having a server. If it is to store a collection of Blue-Ray movies. . .


This reminds me of the old 'nobody needs more than 640K' gag. If this limitation appears in the RTM version I will pass on it and start thinking about updating my WHS to Linux. I am also worried about the reason - having trouble with more than 10 drives. How on earth is this a problem? I'm pretty sure that problem doesn't exist for Server 2008. <_<

/22 drives in my current WHS box

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 08:08 AM

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It's because of Drive Extender.
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