Hard Drive Pooling available in Server 2008?

DangerIsGo

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I am using WHS to currently pool my HDDs (as Ockie has his setup). Unfortunately, there are a few gripes with it (unable to evenly distribute the data rather than using up each HDD first, quota configuration, etc..) and was wondering if Server 2008 instead or 2010 has drive pooling like WHS does and if using one of those options would fix those gripes? I wasn't sure whether to post that here or operating systems, but since it has to do more with storage than the OS, id figure I post it here.
 
You can create the following volumes. simple, spanned, stripped, mirrored and raid-5

Spanned will just fillup the first, then onto the next when needed and so on. Not evenly distributed.

Stripped and Raid-5 is technically are sort of evenly distributed since it writes data across all the drives in the volume. The file is split accross all drives in the volume.

Not quite the same type of pool like in WHS but similar in some respects.
 
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