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I recently had a 1Tb drive die on me. It was part of a 4-drive RAID 5 array that I was using for media storage in my server (Windows Home Server 2011). Anyway, I pulled the drive quickly and sent it off to Western Digital for warranty replacement It had 6 days left on the warranty (which has never happened to me before).
I have since rebuilt my RAID 5 array with 2Tb drives, and soon I'll have four 1Tb drives that I don't have a use for. I'll definitely leave them in my server, but I'm thinking of pooling them together. I would like to hear from folks who are using one of the two most popular pooling apps for Windows Home Server 2011 (Drive Bender or Stablebit Drivepool). Which do you prefer? Are there any more appealing options out there besides these two? I'd definitely want a folder duplication feature. What about the built-in Drive spanning thing that Microsoft offers? There's no duplication, but maybe there's a stand-alone program/addin for that?
Your thoughts & experiences please..
I recently had a 1Tb drive die on me. It was part of a 4-drive RAID 5 array that I was using for media storage in my server (Windows Home Server 2011). Anyway, I pulled the drive quickly and sent it off to Western Digital for warranty replacement It had 6 days left on the warranty (which has never happened to me before).
I have since rebuilt my RAID 5 array with 2Tb drives, and soon I'll have four 1Tb drives that I don't have a use for. I'll definitely leave them in my server, but I'm thinking of pooling them together. I would like to hear from folks who are using one of the two most popular pooling apps for Windows Home Server 2011 (Drive Bender or Stablebit Drivepool). Which do you prefer? Are there any more appealing options out there besides these two? I'd definitely want a folder duplication feature. What about the built-in Drive spanning thing that Microsoft offers? There's no duplication, but maybe there's a stand-alone program/addin for that?
Your thoughts & experiences please..