Revisiting My Home Server Buildīack in December 2010, I posted with some rough specifications and power figures for my ideal Home Server build. RAID makes the setup more complicated in that you need knowledge to understand the technical differences between RAID-0, 1, 5, and 10 and so forth, the number of disks required for each and how the different levels effect storage capacity, redundancy and performance.
Yes Drive Extender was easy and made the server friendly and made it easy for end-users without technical knowledge to provision storage, RAID was not supported and was also not recommended. I had been previously considering using software RAID in the form of Flex RAID because it offers byte level data protection like that offered by DE, but in further thinking sessions, I came to the conclusion that Microsoft dropped DE because of issues with software data redundancy, and that although potentially more expensive to initially setup, hardware RAID will offer a better level of protection and will also help to improve IOPS which is crucial when I will be using Green drives to reduce the energy footprint of the server. This is largely due to the fact that I am technical to therefore understand technologies like RAID and as a result, I have an idea on directions to take with DE. Although I shed a tear briefly, I’m not going to write offensive emails to Steve Ballmer or get on a high horse about it like many people in the social networking or blogosphere scenes. Yesterday I received an email in my Inbox from Microsoft Connect announcing the Public release of the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Vail, which is to be officially named Windows Home Server 2011.Īs many had feared, the key feature from Windows Home Server v1, Drive Extender is missing.
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