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6th January 2012, 11:54 | #1 |
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| Windows 8 Storage Spaces detailed: pooling redundant disk space for all When Microsoft killed Windows Home Server's "Drive Extender" technology, we mourned its loss but held up hope that the company would persevere with the concept. The company has done just that with a new Windows 8 feature called Storage Spaces, described in a lengthy post to its Building Windows 8 blog. With Storage Spaces, physical disks to be grouped together into pools, and pools are then carved up into spaces, which are formatted with a regular filesystem and are used day-to-day just like regular disks. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...campaign =rss |
6th January 2012, 17:13 | #2 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| this is so cool for home usage... definitely getting W8 for storage server more detailed screenies at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2...fficiency.aspx define 10TB pool for docs&pics&personalmovies in MIRROR define 50TB poof for media&other in PARITY add random disks, all different sizes, over SATA, IDE, USB, etc; doesn't matter; start using drive pools as if they are one big *ss disk... WITH FAULT TOLERANCE. looking forward to this feature. this is a software feature similar to hardware DROBO PRO which costs $500-1500!
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