WHS System Drive Failed...

[xxx_Loki_xxx]

The main/system drive in my WHS died with the rest of the hardware... my ups was faulting an overload, I would suspect the power supply failed(?). The setup had 2x500gb drives (system+2nd drive) and a newly added 1tb drive(in the server for about 3 months), a total of about 1.2tb worth of data between the 3 drives, all seagate barracuda drives. The system drive is completely fubared, it will not allow any system connected to the drive to post nor will it return any error codes.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for the following questions:

1) Where do I start to recover the remaining data on the other 2 drives? How much data can I expect to recover? Folder Duplication was only added to the family photo's (+/-50gb).

2) What would be a suitable replacement for the system drive in a WHS environment? Western Digital Caviar Green? Green, large capacity & slow or power hungry, smaller capacity & fast?

Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

 

[Dangman]

1) IIRC, you can just remove the drive from WHS and hook it up to any Windows system. The data should be accessable if the drive isn't FUBAR'd

2) No idea.

 

[nitrobass24]

OK that sux

Heres what you need to do.
Take the two non-system drives and connect them to a windows machine and verify that they are good, and the data is intact.
Take system(fubared) drive and connect to same system. Try to recover any data.

Build new WHS, with 1tb+ drive.
When you insert the disc, it should detect the other drives and see that it had a WHS installation before and allow you to do a reinstallation.
This will allow you to maintain your Storage Pool and its Data.

For a system drive I would not get anything smaller than a 1tb as they are less than $100 now.

 

[xxx_Loki_xxx]

Thanks for the replies,

System drive is done, you can see where the circuit board failed. (charred/cracked circuit). Would you go with the WD Green drive for a system drive, running at 5400rpm? Or would it be better to go with a 7200rpm drive?

 

[nitrobass24]

System drive I like 7200 for system respnosiveness, data drives green ones are good.