Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its upcoming Windows Home Server product; a sort of beefed up NAS based on Windows Server 2003 SP2. A few days ago, Microsoft released the first release candidate for Windows Home Server, and since I was admitted into the beta program, I downloaded this release and transformed my trusty desktop x86 into a Home Server.
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Member since:2005-06-30
Whoever mixing programming and technical competences isn't really in position to talk at all. Two completely different worlds.
As for Drive Extender, it looks pretty much like dynamic volumes with drive autoconfiguration... However, the replication feature is interesting. It looks like the OS is capable enough to copy protected data over different drives, even though they are sharing the same pool. Not bad.
That said, I believe concerns about the single pool configuration are legitimate. If all drives are sharing a single dynamic volume on a single filesystem, corruption could trash the whole system, unless the filesystem structure is backed on that system partition. Any words on that?
As for the "death of drive letters"... About freaking time. Welcome in 1970, heh.
Although I prefer the flexibility of setting up my own server (lots of fun with Linux, Xen and services), WHS is getting an interesting solution for the average Joe that just want to manage his home network. I just wonder if they are going to spoil everything by adding DRM, protected paths and the like...
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2005-09-27
I don't care who have used VB6 or don't, is not the point, you see, if you read the link the first you will see is a line like this one:
"I ended up going back to doing some Visual Basic (classic that is, not the abomination of VB.Net)"
Who ever think VB classic is better in comparition to VB.net or who ever think VB6 is better than, well "something", ain't really in a possition about argu over a delicate subject like RAIDS, Virtual File systems or anything beyond, Is my opinion and I really couldn't care less if the guy (or you) wants to live his own lie.
Edited 2007-06-15 21:08