HP Dumping WHS Vail

The next question is are they going to stop selling home server like devices entirely? Or just ones with WHS on it?
 
Whs vail dropped DE, so HP dropped the pos that remained.
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They are getting out of the home server line altogether. So no more of those nice little 4 bay units from HP anymore.
 
Really they should just sell those devices with freenas on it, or heck, sell it as just a no OS computer appliance, and people can install whatever they want on it. IMO that's the best bet for these storage devices.

I don't get the logic behind MS dropping DE though. I'm not really a WHS user, I've always used Linux, but from my understanding DE is what makes WHS attractive to people.
 
The HP units are good value - it'd probably cost you more to put together a pc with the same form factor, hotswap bays, low power consumption and included OS. If they go on fire sale I'm picking up a backup.
 
sabregen said:
Dropping DE is going to prove a VERY big mistake, IMO
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I get the impression WHS is going to get abandoned. The noises seem to be saying they're trying to make it work for the small business situation. Um, duh, isn't there already a Small Business Server solution?

There must have been some reorganizations within departments. Perhaps someone (who hated WHS) has gotten into a position with enough power to cripple and eventually kill it. Or got stuck with WHS in addition to something else and is treating WHS like a bastard stepchild (insert your preferred analogy instead). Reorgs have a tendency to cause disasters like this.

Meanwhile a smaller, more nimble company like Drobo is going to move a lot of units, even though it's a rather inferior device. Great idea, lousy execution. Once again MS will piss away market potential...
 
wkearney99 said:
Most news indicates that was NOT a factor in the decision. What factors were involved would be interesting to know.
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For me, it meant I wasn't going to buy it. Lack of customer interest in a new Hp WHS server with Vail? :p
 
Red Squirrel said:
Really they should just sell those devices with freenas on it, or heck, sell it as just a no OS computer appliance, and people can install whatever they want on it. IMO that's the best bet for these storage devices.

I don't get the logic behind MS dropping DE though. I'm not really a WHS user, I've always used Linux, but from my understanding DE is what makes WHS attractive to people.
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I know DE caused hiccups in streaming media on WHS if you were running low power hard drives (like green drives etc), this is common for home servers where power consumption is a major drawback for a storage system. If DE kicked in to do some drive balancing or replication it would cause HD playback to fall on its face. I always had to shut DE down during usage hours an only turn it on at night.

Perhaps they never found a way to correct this, although it seems that a priority queue structure would have solved this problem. Perhaps it had more to do with something else.

I was really hoping Vail would be a success. I was ready to move up to 2TB hard drives. Now I have no idea what I will do to upgrade my storage i the future. It was also one of the reasons for purchasing a technet account. I'm not going to Boo MS just yet, I'm still curious to see if they can come up with something that works, whether or not they are calling it "DE".
 
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