From: "Rich Gauszka" 


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-fe
atures-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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