By Philip Churchill on February 19th, 2011
Good Riddance to Drive Extender
One Windows Home Server user says good bye and good riddance to Drive Extender (DE).
An interesting read from a WHS enthusiast on why they are happy DE is no longer, which you can read here.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that if you had a drive in that situation where it was failing and you didn’t want to properly remove the drive, you can just pull the drive, and insert a fresh one. DE, far from preventing him from properly replacing a drive, would have saved his ass and saved a lot of time.
Philip, you’ve got to vet this sort of crap more, or in posting it, at least explain why he’s wrong.
I could not agree with you more Varun
I totally agree varun and Phil but it seems in this situation that didnt work.
To the commenters above – don’t be so quick to judge. I’ve been using WHS since Jan 2008 and I’m a fan. However, I’m right now restoring my server because DE refused to completely remove a failing drive, no matter what I tried. I still prefer the pool, but the last couple days of click and wait just to have continued lack of success at removing an empty drive have been daunting. The problem really isn’t with DE so much as in giving the removal wizard a little more power to force a removal. Well – as we speak, my server restore process has failed….
Hey
I like the idea of DE but for the second time, my sys drive is full and whs is again telling me that the drive is failing. I’ve been down this road before and reloaded the server with a brand new 1TB Deskstar sys drive only to find myself right back here again.
Is there anyway to balance the data held across all installed drives?
Daren
My WHS has never once stopped me from removing a failing hard drive with a screwdriver
THEN remove using the console, add new drive and recover data from failing drive back to server
Yeah it seems in this case it was a failure of process and not the tech behind it. If the drive had been pulled the problems he experiances wouldnt have happened. Keeping a failing drive in a system during a removal seems pointless and something a little experiance would solve.