Comments on: Drive Balancing Tool

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:23:01 +0000

That makes the assumption that someone is using duplication on all of their data doesn’t it?
For some people that may not be an option in the near future.

By: Paul Westbrook

Paul Westbrook — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:14:11 +0000

But with Drive Extender you shouldn’t be losing any data anyway. The only thing that this buys you is to minimize the amount of duplicated data that you you lose.

I still don’t see the benefit of having adding another third party piece of software on the WHS. Each additional piece of software will use more RAM, which may cause the server to page memory to it virtual memory swap file, which can cause higher disk usage.

Also with more software, there is a greater chance of conflicts or bugs.

By: lawrence

lawrence — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:53:45 +0000

Dont know about you but i would rather have the data spread evenly so if a drive fails i lose a smaller amount than one drive filled to the brim with data. Its all a probablity game but i would rather min the prob of data loss.

By: Paul Westbrook

Paul Westbrook — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:06:59 +0000

I don’t see why this is needed. Windows Home Server does do some balancing. So what that some drives have more data than others.

For a server, I would want to keep the amount of installed third party software to a minimum.