From: Robert Comer 

>(How good is this technology?
>Headrick said that they're seeing 15-19 TB of data stored in 300 GB or less
>of backup space.)

It's pretty good from what I've seen, but that kind of savings may be a
stretch.  It's theoretically possible to have that kind of savings for
similar data across the whole 15-19TB, but like you say, in practice I
doubt if it ever comes close to being close in real world application.

--
Bob Comer



On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:58:19 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>I've also a bit skeptical about some of the advantages of the backup as
>outlined in the article by Paul Thurrott below. I don't doubt that one could
>see a reduction as outlined - just not with it's use as a home media server.
>
>http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp
>
>On the server, Microsoft is using its Single Instance Store (SIS)
>technologies from Windows Server 2003 to keep the backup size as small as
>possible, and it's doing so across PCs. (How good is this technology?
>Headrick said that they're seeing 15-19 TB of data stored in 300 GB or less
>of backup space.)
>
>
>"Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>news:evnf03l7gnba33qrsk75ige59783p3h4ve{at}4ax.com...
>> >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.
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:56:48 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>so Microsoft has reinvented RAID? Windows client  only will leave me out
>>>of
>>>the loop
>>>
>>>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/windows-home-server-everything-you-need-f
eatures-rundown-scre/
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>"Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
>>>news:panf03hlq5adqipkvn0d8s7iantdcjejsu{at}4ax.com...
>>>> Price point might be a problem at home, hard to tell. 
I'll be running
>>>> one I think. 
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bob Comer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:38:41 -0400, Richard B.

>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:44:49 -0400, Robert Comer
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Windows Home Server is very cool.
>>>>>
>>>>>I've read a little about it, wonder if it well get embraced.
>>>>>
>>>>>- Richard
>>>
>

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