okay to change drive location in WHS?

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If you change the location of your hard drives in your WHS, for example, exchange the location of drive 2 and 3, will the WHS recognize the change? Is the WHS smart enough to know the new drive 3 is the old drive 2?
 
if theres programs on those drives then you are going to have to reinstall those programs otherwise you should be fine...

but if its just data then for example drive E has been change to drive F then your data will be on F:\
 
tonyyy said:
if theres programs on those drives then you are going to have to reinstall those programs otherwise you should be fine...

but if its just data then for example drive E has been change to drive F then your data will be on F:\
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In WHS, there is no drive E or F, only C and D.
 
The storage pool drives in Windows Home Server are not location dependent. I regularly move my drives around in my Norco 4220 case as I migrate all of the drives to 2TB drives. I'm trying to keep all of the 2 TB drives on the Supermicro SASLP cards and moving the smaller 1.5 TB drives to the mobo ports since I can't get any SMART data from the mobo sata ports, thanks to AMD and its stupid AHCI/RAID drivers.
 
You can move drives between ports and controllers freely. WHS stores a file with a guid on the drive, that's the only thing it uses to identify the volume.
 
cavediver said:
The storage pool drives in Windows Home Server are not location dependent. I regularly move my drives around in my Norco 4220 case as I migrate all of the drives to 2TB drives. I'm trying to keep all of the 2 TB drives on the Supermicro SASLP cards and moving the smaller 1.5 TB drives to the mobo ports since I can't get any SMART data from the mobo sata ports, thanks to AMD and its stupid AHCI/RAID drivers.
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Thanks, that's good to know.
 
cavediver said:
The storage pool drives in Windows Home Server are not location dependent. I regularly move my drives around in my Norco 4220 case as I migrate all of the drives to 2TB drives. I'm trying to keep all of the 2 TB drives on the Supermicro SASLP cards and moving the smaller 1.5 TB drives to the mobo ports since I can't get any SMART data from the mobo sata ports, thanks to AMD and its stupid AHCI/RAID drivers.
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How do you get SMART from the SASLP in windows?
 
nitrobass24 said:
How do you get SMART from the SASLP in windows?
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I don't know for sure, but I've gotten it from day one via speedfan and in the Disk Management addin. I do not get it from the mobo's sata ports in either Speedfan or the Disk Management addin. In fact, Speedfan doesn't show the mobo attached drives at all. I have a Gigabyte MA790GP-UD4H mobo with the bios set to AHCI. The two SASLP cards are installed in the two X16/X8 slots.
 
I haven't had any luck pulling SMART data from my Supermicro either. :(
 
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