There is plenty of extra space in that configuration. And you'd also have the external dock and large HDD to use for a backup routine on your MSS. But your end result after restoring to the new drives would be a cleaner install. This wouldn't relieve you of the need to do a fresh OS install on your new 2gb red drive. But I'm thinking to replace it with their SDOCKU33EF as it has a fan on it and the external HDD gets kinda toasty after extended backup writes. I've had no compatibility issues using the Star Tech HDD external dock (SDOCKU313E) either with USB or eSATA for just this purpose and do full backups of my server monthly. Then pick up a large enough backup drive to back up your clients to it as well as backup your shares to it (using MSS backup console).

If it was me, I'd go ahead and replace both drives (presuming they both have more or less similar hours on them).Īn alternate solution to cloning would be to install BDBB on to your server. In your situation it sounds like you have two drives in your MSS, one of which is starting to get dodgy.

Ruben is correct presuming the SMART errors are sector related and not issues like spin up time, What is the best way to accomplish that as well? The third drive could be added at a later time if that would be best.Īny and all advice, guidelines, and tips are welcome. I would like to replace the system drive with its clone and add a third identical drive to the system. (WD WD20EFRX-6BEUZN0 2terabyte)Īs an aside, there are 2 of these in the server. I already have a replacement drive of the same manufacturer and size etc. Will that work? Are there any other tips and guidelines of which I should be aware? I have been reading the step by step instructions provided on this blog. It appears that I should be able to clone the system drive as it is before he fails. I do not want to have to rebuild from scratch and reinstall software again, so I want to replace the system drives in whatever way I can to avoid that.

I now have Smart installed and monitoring the storage drives, and recently noticed warnings popping up on the system drive. We have had to recover 3 laptop hard drive disasters and one ex495 system drive failure during that time. We use Logitech’s Squeezebox very nicely for that. It has been a good piece of equipment, providing backup for several other pc’s in the home and a storage and media center for all of our music and pictures. I have been running WHS on an EX495 box since around 2010 at version 3.3

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