As we all know.....Microsoft has decided to pull DE - Drive Extender from its next release of Windows Home Server code named "VAIL".
To me and a lot of other users DE was the core of the product and without it, makes it seemingly useless as there are plenty of alternatives most of which are either free or inexpensive.
As support for WHS V1 will likely fall behind, I can bet a lot of users will be changing their setups to accommodate either V2 or an alternative system.
Personally the most important ingredients to this OS was its ability to pool drives and its awesome/simplistic network backup. I've invested over the years in odd sized drives ranging from 500 gigs through to 2Tb so raid is not a solution for me - and I assume isn't a solution for many people.
My questions to everyone is:
1: What O/S/Software would you switch to and why.
2: Will it pool drives or will you switch to a RAID solution?
3: What network backup solution would you use?
To me and a lot of other users DE was the core of the product and without it, makes it seemingly useless as there are plenty of alternatives most of which are either free or inexpensive.
As support for WHS V1 will likely fall behind, I can bet a lot of users will be changing their setups to accommodate either V2 or an alternative system.
Personally the most important ingredients to this OS was its ability to pool drives and its awesome/simplistic network backup. I've invested over the years in odd sized drives ranging from 500 gigs through to 2Tb so raid is not a solution for me - and I assume isn't a solution for many people.
My questions to everyone is:
1: What O/S/Software would you switch to and why.
2: Will it pool drives or will you switch to a RAID solution?
3: What network backup solution would you use?