News - Microsoft removing Drive Extender from next version of Windows Home Server

[mercyground]

What he ^^ said.

DE is a major factor for WHS appealing, and without it, I lose any interest at all.

What intrigues me is the quote ...

Excuse me, but what what part of Windows Home Server are those morons at MS not understanding? This was supposed to be positioned as a home product, not a small or medium business one.

^this. And thus. Vail becomes fail.

The whole point behind WHS was to remove complexity. Well MS. You just removed yourself from the running for my parents project. Will prob use a linux solution instead now.

[miw]

Are they serious about fake raid? I have tried this a couple of times, even in RAID 10 configuration and it actually degrades performance and in actual fact ended up reducing reliability because it isn't really RAID and doesn't actually operate fully at the hardware level. Software RAID is actually better.

Without Drive extender, you are actually better off buying a Netgear SAN box or similar. Vail === Fail for sure.

--mark

[Splash]

What I *do* find rather amusing is how widely panned WHS was at beta and release stage. I tinkered with it (got it via Technet) and couldn't justify the cost or resource but to me it's clearly a good fit for a lot of small home networks. In that kind of environment while DE isn't the only selling point it's a pretty large one so I can see why the uproar.

[Splash]

Are they serious about fake raid? I have tried this a couple of times, even in RAID 10 configuration and it actually degrades performance and in actual fact ended up reducing reliability because it isn't really RAID and doesn't actually operate fully at the hardware level. Software RAID is actually better.

You realise that "fakeraid" *is* a software RAID?

Without Drive extender, you are actually better off buying a Netgear SAN box or similar. Vail === Fail for sure.

--mark

SAN != NAS. Seriously, the target market of WHS really aren't looking at SAN storage.

[directhex]

You realise that "fakeraid" *is* a software RAID?

Less flexible, though. You can transplant drives using the OS's own software RAID from one box to another much easier than if it's using a particular brand of fakeraid that isn't in the second box