WHS - Future drive additions

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ottozylch46

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Having used WHS for awhile now, it has worked flawlessly and does what I need it to do, serving media in the household. My question concerns HD additions in the future. With 2Tb and larger drives becoming the norm, most being sold are with the Advanced Format layout.
I have room for four (4) more drives in my case. With some crazy sales going on with these drives (WD EARS, Samsung F4 etc), am I destined to hunt down the older models?
Seems the consensus is that the newer 4k sector drives to not function well with WHS.

Sure would suck to have gotten this far with WHS and now not be able to utilize any of the newer or larger drives. Any drives added would only be added to the storage pool.

Any input greatly appreciated.
 
You can still buy 250GB drives at Frys, and you can still buy IDE drives on line...I think your good for a lotta years before you can't buy drives that play nice with WHS v1, and the newer, larger, 4k sector drives already play nice with v2 (Vail).
 
Thanks for posting this, I wasn't even aware that a problem existed with the 2TB drives. Do you have any links to these issues? I was thinking about upgrading some 1TB drives in my server as well as I don't have any more space for drives, I can only upgrade from 1TB drives. I really wanted to skip 1.5Tb drives...
 
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