By Philip Churchill on August 13th, 2008
Why doesn't Windows Home Server use RAID?
Following on from our Fear the Cowboy’s post on Windows Home Server Drive Extender v RAID, the Windows Home Server Team Blog has a follow up posting explaining the WHS storage system design requirements and why RAID is not a consumer technology and why it’s not in Windows Home Server.
Read it here.
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WHS was sold as a centralized storage solution, which came with a backup feature, which isn’t the same as to say, a backup server dude!
Not to mention canceling a backup can take a while (several minutes to hours), as the copy of the current 4-10+GB chunk must complete before the cancel can be completed. That’s in addition to experiencing decreased performance for streaming, slow Console response, etc…