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[bradlaw]

I have a home built Windows Home Server Version 1. Last week the motherboard went on it and I was able to salvage the install with a new motherboard. Now I am interested in upgrading to the latest 2011 version but I am a bit concerend with the drive restrictons on the this new version. My machine has a mixed set of hard drives including 2 750GB drives, 3 500GB drives. Its about 3TB in total of drives. I am thinking that I would want to set up a new install and I have enough parts to set up a decent quad core machine. I have an extra 320GB hard drive I want to use for the OS then using a 3rd party drive extender set up my drives. I found the below article which has a few options including Drive Bender, StableBit DrivePool, DataCore. Here are my questions:

http://pricklytech.w...r-replacements/

1. If I buld the new machine using the 320GB hard drive can I plug my existing WHS V1 hard drives in? How would the data be organized when trying to move from Version 1 vs using a 3rd party drive extender. Is the data spread across the drive or would I find "My Pictures" to be in one folder and not spread across the 4-5 drives?
2. If I cannot simply move the hard drives to the new build then use the software drive extenders whats the best way to ensure my data stays in tact on the drive?
3. Are there any other or better options at all, specifically for drive extension - Not sure i want to look into RAID options?

[RonV]

There have been many posts on how to migrate the data from your old drives when installing them into your new server. I had the ability to install new drives in my server and copy the data server to server. Another option is to just install a system drive and a data drive in the server and let it configure during install with the default shares. Then add your drives and copy the data from the old drive to the new shares. Yes the data will be across your old drives.

I use StableBit DrivePool and it works well for me. What you may want to do is get the basic server installed and then install drive pool to assign your base drive letter for the pool. Then migrate the default shares to the drive pool. After that install the old drives and assign that drive to the pool and then copy the data from the base drive to the pool drive. This is sorta a in-place copy but it does work also.