It’s been a busy week in Windows Home Server 2011 Storage Management. First we had news of the forthcoming DataCore DriveHarmony Beta, a couple of updates released for StableBit DrivePool and today we hear news of a Beta 3 update for Drive Bender. If you’re interested in testing all three, I hope you’re keeping up!
Drive Bender presents multiple hard drives as a single pool of data storage, either as a logical drive letter, or a network shared drive. Drive Bender is able to do this with internal and USB (or any externally) connected hard drives, of any size.
The add-in also provides the user with the ability to seamless expand their storage pool by simply adding a new drive. Adding a new drive expands the pool by the size of the new drive. Drive Bender also offers a merge capability, allowing users to take a drive that contains content, and merge that drive (and content) into the pool.
To further ensure data safety, Drive Bender can automatically duplicate any file added to a Drive Bender pool. File duplication is determined at the folder level and occurs on the fly as data is being written to the pool.
The latest version, v1.1.3.3 brings the following fixes and features:
- Much improved file read performance.
- Windows based network shared (i.e. shares creating on folders contained within a drive letter mount point) as now restored correctly upon reboot.
- Drive letter mounted pools now show up and work correctly within the WHS “Server Folders and Hard Drives” tab.
- WHS server folders can now be created on a drive letter mounted pool.
- Drive letter mount points now support WHS client backups.
- Drive letter mounted pools now have full recycle bin support.
- Applying and removing duplication can now cascade to child folders.
- Improved file / folder renaming.
- Bug fix: Renaming a folder twice could cause the rename to fail if the name was previously used.
- Bug fix: Removing a duplicated folder was not working correctly in the WHS adding.
- Bug fix: Renaming a file could cause a duplication file to be created.
- Bug fix: Fixed recycle bin corruption bug.
- Bug fix: Adding drive was causing an error in v1.1.3.2
- Many other bug fixes and enhancements.
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