- #HOW TO SIGN IN TO WINDOWS 2011 HOME SERVER UPGRADE#
- #HOW TO SIGN IN TO WINDOWS 2011 HOME SERVER FREE#
You can technically pull these drives out and put them in with the machine is running, but I'm still paranoid and I figure it never hurts to shutdown first (which I didn't do in this particular picture.) Swap the Drive Enclosures Also, at this point, the lights on the front of my server are 1 pink (the removed drive) and 3 blue (the remaining healthy drives.)
#HOW TO SIGN IN TO WINDOWS 2011 HOME SERVER FREE#
Notice that my free space went from 1.2TB to 1.02TB, so I lost about 200gig in this removal process. When the drive is "remove" from the software, but not yet physically yanked out of the machine, it'll show up in the list as a "Non-Storage Hard Drive." It tells me not to turn the machine off, etc. I right-clicked the drive, clicked Remove. This can also take a while, although it didn't for me. You are removing one, and it needs to make sure each file is on at least 2 other driver, as I understand it. This is important so the Home Server can make sure ALL your files are sufficiently duplicated on more than just 1 drive. Now you need to warn the Home Server that you're removing a drive. Warn the Home Server you're Removing a Drive Maybe 10 minutes, maybe an hour, it depends on how large your stuff is. This operation, as with most "large scale" operations, will take a while.
#HOW TO SIGN IN TO WINDOWS 2011 HOME SERVER UPGRADE#
I really only needed the most recent ones, so I went into the Home Server Console and clicked "Backup" then "Backup Cleanup." This happens on Sundays automatically, but it's a good way to make a little space before a hardware upgrade like mine. This isn't 100% necessary, but I noticed that a LOT of my space was taken up by backups going back as far as 3 months. Here's how I upgraded my two smallest drives to new 1TB SATA Seagates. What's nice is that it supports drives of different sizes, rather than using either insisting on the same size driver, or using only the smallest drive size for all drives. It's not RAID, but it effectively gives you the same level of assurance that your data won't go missing.
The system is always duplicating your files on as many disks as possible. A lot of space was taken up by backing up 6 different Home PCs, and a lot of was taken up by Family Photos and Videos from my new HD Camcorder.
This was fine when i started, as I only used up like 50% of the capacity.įast forward a year or so later, and I'd only had less than 20% left. I ended up with a 70gig (I have no idea why I put that) and a 300gig as drives 2 and 4. Because I can't stand the empty slots, I threw in whatever drives I had lying around. The HP supports up to FOUR drives at a time internally. When I first started, I had the two 500gig drives it came with. You really can't go wrong because it's like butter (yes, rich, creamy butter) to upgrade. I think the best deal is to get the smallest one you can afford, and upgrade it when you start running out of space. You can get various sizes, from 500gig up to 1.5 TB. ) I bought an HP MediaSmart Home Server from Amazon. I love my Windows Home Server, it's saved my *ss and my marriage.
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