
The performance problems and I/O errors went away. After moving data off the home server, I removed the drives with the incorrect model numbers and enabled PerfectDisk. Unfortunately, about half of the drives I bought, including the 2TB drive, were not the right models. Further research found that there are only two good WD Green model numbers: However, doing so I ran into problems with PerfectDisk and defragmentation where the system would hang or blue screen, leaving errors in the event log around the storage or Marvell drivers causing issues. I added a bunch of WD Green 1TB drives and one WD Green 2TB drive. In general, I’ve found these drives to be horrible performers. I stumbled upon WD Green hard drives and they appeared to not only be affordable but also provide power saving benefits.īad, bad news. I ended up putting the three 1TB drives into a RAID 5 configuration to balance storage and resilience. You can’t allocate RAID disks into a Storage Space - you have to use RAID instead. This makes it incompatible with Storage Spaces. I discovered while setting up Windows Server 2012 with Windows Server Essentials that the OS actually sees the drives as a RAID-controlled array to be provisioned, not as separate SATA disks.

#Asset upnp dlna server whs serial number
There is a defect in WHS where the serial number of the drives inside the EX475 gets misreported. In February 2016 I switched the OS to be Windows Server 2012 with Windows Server Essentials.Ĭurrent drive mappings (model / serial) - helpful in debugging issues: I bought an HP EX475 MediaSmart server with Windows Home Server v1 on it as my first foray into serving media and general media storage. Toggle table of contents sidebar HP EX475 MediaSmart #
