Comments on: Volume Shadow Services (VSS) on WHS

By: The Home Server Show Number 78 | Using Windows Home Server

The Home Server Show Number 78 | Using Windows Home Server — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:46:16 +0000

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By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:45:36 +0000

Software bugs refers to a glitch, a mistake, a defect or flaw in a design in the software code, right?

However, anyone experiencing KB 946676 “data corruption” doesn’t get Microsoft to recover their now corrupted and destroyed files! No patch here!

Microsoft has stated on many occasions that it’s WHS Drive Extender code is just an algorithm of a “sort” that’s just needing to be adjusted. Whatever you want to call that, only Microsoft knows.

But, bugs are normally something that’s suppose to be workout before the operating system becomes operational. That’s why we pay good money to have testing done first, so customers don’t become testers but end up as software users, for which everyone pays to for that experience expectation.

What’s so shameful yet, is in how Microsoft obviously failed to address this reported issue during the beta period. Which Microsoft had claimed some 100,000 beta testers reportedly had used this software product.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, despite having the 100,000 beta testers which many of them had reported this issue, Microsoft didn’t resolve the issue even after going public last year and continues to sell a proven damaging software product that everybody must take many steps to avoid using the product in order to avoid destroying their data, financial files, family videos, photos with corruption.

If it’s just a bug, why does it take so long to offer a patch, that is unless your re-writing the fundamental underlying code that’s needing to be replaced.

Bugs, don’t require re-writing the foundation. There just to patch not offer a new version to replace. Imagine a flaw in your automobile, would you call it a bug if the dealership gave you a new automobile in it’s place?

By: Greg M.

Greg M. — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:56:59 +0000

Thanks for clarifying. Without wishing to get philosophical why is data corruption not a ‘bug’?

By: Raymond L.

Raymond L. — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:59:43 +0000

The VSS bug is another bug NOT related to the WHS Drive Extender bug. Only, I wouldn’t call the later a bug, it’s data corruption!

By: Greg Martin

Greg Martin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:12:42 +0000

So, as I have an HP MediaSmart I don’t need to worry about this VSS bug – but does that also mean I won’t suffer from the ‘multiple hard drives’ bug? Are the two (or three!) related?

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:48:47 +0000

Microsoft Fanboi’s are just working behind the scenes to orchestrate “independent” praises to offset their own proven fundamental flawed WHS Drive Extender technology.

READ For Yourself the Unfolding Story…
“WHS: A Series of Unfortunate Events”
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=413

By: Arnoud

Arnoud — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:23:27 +0000

What kind of server system is WHS when it cannot deal with data reliably in so many ways? I just bought a WHS server and am seriously peeved after reading stories like this, incl. the other data corruption bug with multiple harddrives. I bought it mainly as a data backup solution, but I cannot use it for that.. unbelievable that these things stay unfixed for months with systems as critical as this. Way to go Microsoft..!