From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> >so Microsoft has reinvented RAID?
>
> Equating it TO RAID really doesn't do it justice, it's not a
> replacement for RAID, it's something new.
>
>>Windows client  only will leave me out of
>>the loop
>
> You *only* run server version on all your PC's?  Even I don't do that.
>

??. I run a NAS RAID server. By 'windows client' I was assuming that my
Macmini/Macbook would be left out of the loop. I'm not really interested in
it - just a bit curious  - for anyone that is though the Beta may still be
open.


http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer

>>It does not use RAID, but instead uses a RAID-like drive pooling system
>>with
>>built-in redundancy. Expanding capacity is as simple as adding
>
> I'm not sure how much I can talk about the actual guts, but it's not
> RAID like as I said above.  As for adding storage, yep, it's easy just
> to plug in a new disk and tell it to use it.
>
>> The client software, which is installable only on Windows PCs (duh)
>>monitors PC health, manages backups, and supports full disk images and
>>versions. If your computer crashes hard you can pop in an restore CD and
>>it'll pull the disk image over the network.
>
> It also functions as a home file share server (with redundancy if you
> want it)
>
> It would be nice with more clients, but it would be pretty hard, it
> uses client side stuff to do the backup, and if that stuff isn't
> there...
>
> Restores are awesome, it's not an all or nothing from the last backup
> either...
>
> --
> Bob Comer
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