Hands On with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 8

By tim, on October 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Storage Spaces is a new virtual storage feature in Windows Server 8. I have the developer preview installed, but it took me a while to get Storage Spaces working – you need one or more unused hard drives. I finally managed to find a spare 150GB Sata drive and tried it out. Note that I

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October 7th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: microsoft, windows | 3 comments

Microsoft removes Drive Extender from new Windows Home Server, users rebel

By tim, on November 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Windows Home Server has a popular feature called Drive Extender [Word docx] which lets you increase storage space simply by adding an internal or external drive – no fussing with drive letters. In addition, Drive Extender has some resilience against drive failure, duplicating files stored in shared folders when more than one drive is

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November 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: microsoft | 3 comments