Any benefit to using Storage Server over Server 2008?

[TechLarry]

If I wanted to use it for simply file storage, would there be any real benefit to using Storage Server 2008 over regular Server 2008 ?

Don't care about domains (don't use them), DHCP, etc...

Oh, will Storage Server even work without a domain?

 

[/usr/home]

If you aren't doing iSCSI or anything like that, just basic windows file sharing then there's no benefit.

You can get a Workgroup edition and a "Domain" edition.

 

[Jay_2]

you can tell the file server what file types it can and can't save, I like that.

 

[/usr/home]

you can tell the file server what file types it can and can't save, I like that.

Really? Did not know that.... Have a bunch of 4+GB "jpegs" haha.

 

[Jay_2]

also does dedupe as well I think

 

[TechLarry]

dedupe, as in single-instance-store ?

 

[TechLarry]

Bump. I'm still interested in the SIS question I love the way it works in WHS.

 

[Jay_2]

Sorry yes its SIS, SIS is in a way like dedupe but I think its at file name level.

 

[TechLarry]

Excellent. I might experiment with that!