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$20 for DrivePool sounds quite reasonable to me.

It will be interesting to see how much each of these solutions will cost. After the issues that WHS v1 had with data corruption it is essential that these vendors get it right. Pricing should be “reasonable” and the add-in will not be restricted to OEMs.Ĭertainly all of these options are contenders at this point. DataCore is leveraging an existing product that currently is in production on Server 2008 R2 (this bodes very well for their WHS 2011 Add-in). Update: DataCore intends to ship a Beta in May 2011. Initial plans are to distribute through WHS OEMs potentially in Q2. Their intention is to do more than simply replace DE so the least that we can expect is:ĭataCore are looking at other advanced features such as block level snapshots to determine their value to the WHS / SBS user.

Update: March 2011 – DrivePool Add-In is in BetaĭataCore are looking to pick out storage pooling and data protection features from their existing technologies and package them for WHS and Small Business Server (SBS) 2011.

seamless expansion and shrinkage of the storage pool (excluding the system drive).

A Technical Preview should be available in the coming weeks: StableBit DrivePool is a forthcoming add-in for WHS 2011.

self balancing when a new drive is added.

seamless expansion and shrinkage of the storage pool – add new drives or partitions.

Drive Bender should be available for all (modern) versions of Windows: wegotserved has been covering these replacements and in this post I will briefly review the options so far.ĭrive Bender is a Windows driver and service that will have a dashboard add-in for configuration. This is certainly good news for WHS which, in my opinion, became a much less valuable proposition without DE. A number of companies have now announced Drive Extender (DE) replacements for Windows Home server 2011 (Vail).