Switch Systems Blog

In a recent blog post, Microsoft explain their reasoning for removing the Drive Extender technology which was to allow WHS style drive pooling and fault tolerance.

Whilst a lot of people will see this as a step backwards, I’m personally happy with this decision – drive extender tech makes it a lot harder for us ‘real’ sysadmins to determine where data lies in a disaster recovery situation, plus we’re much more familiar with RAID based solutions.