Specify the first as the system drive and then let all the other drives join the storage poll. The way they want you to use the system is simple plug in all your drives. Especially at the beginning when the dread data corruption bug was alive.

I have 6 - 500 gig drives and they are all pooled although for a long time I kept various drives outside of the pool and did direct shares on them. I an not sure about raid as different people have different levels of success with it. You have to think a system drive and the rest being the d drive: ( even though in reality it can be many other drives pooled together). I am not sure why you need a bigger C: but 20 gig has worked fine for me. Ken it really does not work the way you are thinking. Many thanks in anticipation of your suggestions/advice. Please show me the error of my ways/suggest an alternative so that I can complete my WHS installation in a drive space that is more appropriate to my perceived needs. add the remaining 60 GB from the first RAID set into the C drive.change the drive letter of the E drive to D.delete the WHS install created D drive.transfer everything from the install created D drive to the now E drive.after the installation is complete, bring the second RAID set on line.install WHS into the minimum allocated space and let it create its' 20 GB and 60 GB C and D drives.One at the minimum 80 GB size allocation and the other for the balance of the available space (approx. I'm now thinking that the only way to meet my requirements is to: Initially I had all 3 drives in a single RAID 5 set. My disk hardware is 3 x Seagate 1TB drives controlled by an Areca 1110 SATA RAID card. I also understand that the minimum hard disk space available to WHS must be at least 80GB. I understand that the WHS install process allocates 20 GB to D: and the rest to a JBOD pool.

Normally, I'd be happy to play but I'm in a time crunch at the moment, so. My very limited attempts to create a larger space have been unsuccessful to date. as an aside, I think that the installation process ought to be modified so that a user may specify an allocation or take the Microsoft allocated default according to the individual whims/needs. I think that it is too small and would like to make it larger. I'm not happy with the arbitrary 20 GB C drive allocation. Greetings, This question has probably been asked before but I could immediately find an answer so I apologize for any burden I create.

D drive vs c drive