Extremely irritating news today. Microsoft is taking a product I love and killing it. First the news came that the new version of Drive Extender would be neutered of its ability to have its disks read without the need of WHS (an important disaster recovery option, IMO), and now it seems that the Drive Extender “feature” will be removed entirely. I say “feature” because I (and most other WHS users, I would assume) consider Drive Extender to be the whole thing that WHS is, not some feature to be discarded. This simply amounts to Microsoft tactfully killing the product.
Years ago I examined all the options and came to the conclusion that RAID was just too much trouble in terms of a way to achieve redundancy in file storage. I was considering software raid options, but then lo and behold, I stumbled upon Windows Home Server, which provided a dead simple solution for extending and creating redundant storage without the need to match disk sizes and without the worry of needing to replace a controller with an identical version should it fail. I was completely sold.
Now I just feel left in the cold. Microsoft, if you plan to kill this product, please at least just have the decency to look me in the eye and tell me.
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