Preventing data corruption on WHS?

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BurntToast

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Q1) Is there any safeguard in WHS to prevent against data corruption?

Q2) How many hard disk failures can WHS sustain at one time?

Q3) Assuming there is enough space and a single HDD fails, will WHS reshuffle the data and rebuild the array utilizing the remaining drives?
 
Q1) Yes, but they are not industrial strength.
Q2) All but the system disk. However you WILL lose data after the first failure. You MAY lose data with the first failure if you have un-duplicated data on that disk.
Q3) Yes, the duplicated data. Unduplicated data will simply be lost.

As the previous poster stated, this is NOT raid, so the term "array" is a bit misleading in this context.
 
Q3) someone the other day said that it does not start reduplicating the data after a failed drive. I'm too lazy to read the white paper...
 
you have to tell it to start rebuilding....it will not do it automatically
 
jcolby said:
And the theory is that the disk is going to return to the fold?
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What?

Sorry if I was not clear.
When a Disk Fails in WHS, the console tray Icon turns red and displays a message to the user.
It is then the users responsibility to determine if the drive failed, or controller failed, or whatever caused the OS to not recognize the drive.
If it is determined that the drive does not work you can select remove and it will remove the drive from the Storage pool and then start to reduplicate data that was set for duplication...if it was not set for duplication then your data is lost.
 
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