Can someone who has used both do a comparison?
can;t help - first time using WHS as i've just used xp before
Can someone who has used both do a comparison?
Interesting article on the new Drive Extender functionality on Anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3677/windows-home-server-v2-vail-beta-drive-extender-v2-dissected
Want to put this on my server to test it, but need the server working so don't want to take the risk.
I've got a load of bits, case/MB/processor/memory/hard drive that I was going to put up on the MM, but maybe I should put it together this weekend and give Vail a test run.
Wife will probably throw a wobly though when she see yet another PC in the study. Ah well, maybe she'll give me the silent treatment and that way I can then focus more on playing with Vail.
Taff
I'm going to install in a VM just to be safe for now. The new features look good rather than ground breaking.
However I am not too keen on the fact that Drive Extender 2 means disks can no longer be recovered by hooking a WHS drive up to any PC that can read NTFS. Plus as files can span disks even hooking up a drive to a another WHS PC/VM may not be adequate - if I get time I'll test out disk recovery.
There is a large amount of people over on MS Connect program that have requested that be changed before release/next beta
Not sure now - the more I read about the way the data is stored and "striped" across the disks, the more I think that's a dodgy route to go down with your data.
Edit: Just read on the WHS forum that there is currently an issue preventing installation from USB sticks/hard drives
worked perfectly fine for me from usb stick.
No matter what I try, I cannot seem to get vail to install in vmware player.
It will get to the desktop and then setupmon will crash out, I can run it as an admin and it will progress part way through, reboot and end up back with the setupmon crash.
I'll then run it again as an admin and it will faff about for a bit and finally tell me the install failed and to try again.
Oh, and it doesn't seem to like the key that the connect portal gave me..very strange.