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If you're a current Windows Home Server user there's a very good
chance you've taken advantage of the drive pooling features of the OS.
Need more storage? Pop in a new HDD, watch some lights blink for a
bit, and then you're ready to get back to downloading... whatever it
is you're downloading. Granted things didn't always work perfectly,
but this tech, formally called Drive Extender, makes adding storage
easy, makes it possible to replicate only the data that needs it, and
is completely hardware independent. And now it's going away. Microsoft
has confirmed that the next release of Windows Home Server, Vail (due
in the first half of 2011), will not feature Drive Extender,
indicating you'll need to simply buy bigger drives and manually handle
data replication or rely on RAID to make this happen, solutions that
are decidedly less intuitive for non-techie users. The reaction among
WHS fans has been overwhelmingly negative, with 148 comments (and
counting) on the announcement post, most telling MS where it can shove
its RAID controller. Feel free to keep on venting here if you like.
Update: Malcom dropped this link into comments, where Windows guru
Paul Thurrott indicates the issue is related to MS trying to position
this to the small business sector -- that Drive Extender can't keep up
with more professional loads.
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