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About two weeks ago I added another hard drive to my Windows Home Server (WHS). I bought a Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive. So now my WHS has 3 drives: the 500GB main drive that came preinstalled, a 1TB Western Digital drive and the new 1.5TB Seagate drive for a total of 3TB (or 2.73TB realized storage).
The HP Media Smart WHS that I have makes it so easy to add a drive it’s ridiculous. I was up and running with my new storage space in about 10 minutes, if that. If you are looking at adding a WHS to your setup take a long hard look at the HP Media Smart servers. Great value and easy to use. I probably could have built a home server from a spare PC but at the end of the day my time was more valuable and I got a better WHS for buying a pre-built system.
The extra space allowed me to really clean up and organize my drives. This is what things look like now: (VectorSigma is my Media Center PC and Metroplex is my WHS)
VectorSigma – 3 Drives
- 500 GB (OS, Program Files and temp download location)
- 750 GB (Overflow recorded TV drive)
- 1 TB (recorded TV only drive)
Metroplex – 3 Drives (WHS creates 1 pooled storage space out of the 3 drives)
- Movies
- Archived TV
- Music
- Photos
- Personal Folders (me and my wife)
- Public Folder (misc dump and share folder)
- Software Folder (all my media center utilities, plugins and regular software installs live here)
- Videos (family home videos, viral videos, etc)
I have one more open slot in my WHS and I would like to get another 1.5TB Seagate drive. Maybe Santa will leave one under the tree for me.
2 comments:
Judging from your naming scheme, you are obviously a Transformers fan of the old school. Interesting article. I agree about the value of the pre-built system.
Most definitely an old skool Tranformers fan. My laptop is named Starscream and my Zune is named Rumble. I was thinking Soundwave at first but since it's small I decided one of the Soundwave tapes would be a more appropriate inspiration.
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