Ryu Connor wrote:Scrotos wrote:Drive Bender is supposed to be a replacement of the Windows Home Server "Drive Extender" feature.
Pedantically that'd be
Storage Spaces.
From all I've read, it's completely not:
http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... -it-works/Supplemental reading seems to indicate to get to some of the better features you need to dive into powershell. Great if you know it, I guess. Maybe it's better in Windows Server 2012--I've read a few things to that effect, but I'm assuming OP isn't going to spring for a server OS just for that feature that doesn't seem ready for primetime. Heck, he might not even want to go to Win8.
And just for context, I was ready to dump money down for the Vista/Win7 based WHS premade HP server solution when it came out. Sounded fantastic and exactly what I was looking for for home storage. Then MS killed Drive Extender and HP ditched the product line and I've been looking for something similar ever since.
I mean, I could pick up something like
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... 4R&cat=SVR which has a RAID5/6 capable controller with BBU and plunk the rest of my money down on drives and an OS, but that kinda thing is overkill for my purposes. If Storage Spaces weren't so rough around the edges, I'd be there on that bandwagon. As it is, I'm looking for alternatives that match Drive Extender's featureset.