As I am sure most of you are aware, Drive Extender is gone in Windows Home Server 2011 and will be replaced with your favorite flavor of JBOD, RAID, or DE add-in replacement. As we have reported previously StableBit DrivePool is one such storage pooling add-in designed as a DE replacement and is progressing through the Beta process.
Windows Home Server 2011 is currently available only to those with MSDN and TechNet accounts. If you are lucky enough to have access to WHS 2011 and have a spare *non* production machine sitting around, you might want to check out the new 1588 BETA M2 build of DrivePool. I do not see a listing of the enhancements and changes in this build, but I am sure that Alex will be forthcoming with that information.
For those of you new to DE alternatives or to refresh your memory on the objectives of DrivePool:
StableBit DrivePool was designed to be as simple as possible to solve the problems at hand, but no simpler. In this post I’ll take you through an overview of how the system works. One of the goals of designing DrivePool was simplicity and transparency of process, and storing your files in a widely available format. DrivePool does exactly that. All your files are stored on standard NTFS partitions. They can be accessed by any standard Windows system.
