Posted: 3/8/2012 1:20:57 PM EDT
| I used to have a huge lab at my house running a mix of 2k3 and 2k8 as a platform for a 2k10 exchange environment, but decided to kill it since i have access to lots of Vmware hardware at work to set up/ break down different configs, but wanted to still maintain a small windows network at home. My question is what is the recovery proccess if a usb drive fails in a home server set up? it is as simple as replacing the drive with a like size hd or is it a JBOD where the whole array is forever broken? I am in the proccess of building a second box that will have a hardware raid with a hot spare so this wouldnt be a issue in the future that will run raid 5 for speed and will have a secondarry raid 5 array for local BU ( I know this over kill, but i have lots of data that needs to be preserved). But in the interm before i build this second box if a usb drive fails can i just remove it and plug in a new one and will home server just rebuild or will the aray be lost if a single drive fails? |