Thanks to those who've provided links to alternatives to WHS. I didn't see it listed in the Server 2008 r2 info I read tonight. This seems to be an odd restriction though. Only because the shares that I currently backup from WHS are smaller than 2TB. I'm guessing this won't be a problem for me either. If JBOD can implement spanning while using NTFS then you're somewhat protectedĪgainst losing *all* data if a drive fails.īob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine Unfortunately one of the benefits of using DE (at least v1 DE) is that it used NTFS. Video2, Video3, VideoX.shares and add each one as a library to multiple client machines.Īs you say, using spanning (RAID 0, JBOD) for the larger shares would work. I really don't want to have to manage things such that I have Video1,
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The Video share is added as a library to my Windows Meda Center PC. I have about 4 TB of DVD rips which are located in my Videos share. This would leave the 2 TB and 1.5 TB for backup drives and the 750 GB for a possible spare. I guess I would create at least 1 stripe set (raid 0) to handle the large shares and 2 simple volumes for the other shares. Since DE is dead and the is a 2 TB limit and raid 5 would be wasting space for a home server. I have over 1.5 TB of music and movies and (4) 1 TB drives, (1) 2 TB drive, (1) 1.5 TB drive, and (1) 750 GB drive. So, beyond RAID what else is there to replace DE, other than not having DE like functionality of course?
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Beyond user error, RAID has its own share of faulty drivers, crummy controllers, broken software & horrible documentation. You also have to have patience because if you feel that on your 3rd day of your array recovering/rebuilding that nothing is happeningĪnd you decide to reboot things, you've lost your data. To boot, you have to resist doing anything before reading crappy documentation about your RAID controller. If you don't know what a feature does, don't mess with it. If you're in a flying Boeing 747, you wouldn't go into the cockpit and randomly flip switches. Once you have a RAID setup, you have to have a hands off approach because tinkering with it can easilyĬause downfall. While many disagree with that, in my own experiences with setting up RAID with WHS is that its very user error prone.
For what it's worth, I agree that DE was a suitable replacement for RAID, and that RAID This is because Microsoft felt that RAID was beyond the scope of WHS and DE was a suitable replacement for it. The early days of WHS saw much commotion about the While duplication had some considerable doubters in the early days due to its RAID 1 like capabilities, the storage pool has always been a favored With it go the storage pool and duplication. The purpose of this post is to discuss Drive Extender replacements.Īs discussed extensively, Drive Extender (DE) is gone.
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