By Philip Churchill on February 21st, 2011
Paul Thurrott Recommends WHS 2011
Windows guru Paul Thurrott is all for WHS2011 after originally adopting a "wait and see" approach.
After DE was pulled from Home Server Paul asked himself if he could ever recommend a version of WHS in which Drive Extender was removed and would he also use such a product himself.
Well a few months on and now Paul has decided that he will be using WHS2011 for his own home needs and also will continue recommending it to others.
Paul then tells us what’s new in 2011 and tells us that although Drive Extender will be missed, it is replaceable.
A great read which you can find here.
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I agree with this analysis – I have a machine with 3 x 1Tb drives, so will be working on spreading the shares across 2 drives and using one for backups of the system. Also, you can always look at using Windows 2008 R2 features such as dynamic volumes to allow you to extend the volume across multiple disks with spanning!
In addition to the new and improved features, I am personally looking forward to being able to make use of the underlying 2008 R platform and look to using Hyper-V to setup a Windows 7 image running Media Center as a virtual machine (running Virtual Server on WHS to do this now, but performance is not as good as it could be).
It’s a petty that MS couldn’t sort out enabling Windows Media Center on this, as this feature probably would have convinced many of the benefits even without DE 🙁