https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/norco/Recent content in Norco on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenSat, 22 Sep 2012 22:54:46 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2012/09/22/storage-spaces-leaves-me-empty/Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:54:46 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2012/09/22/storage-spaces-leaves-me-empty/<p>I was very intrigued when I found out about Storage Spaces and ReFS being introduced in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. But now that I&rsquo;ve spent some time with it, I&rsquo;m left disappointed, and I will not be trusting my precious data with either of these features, just yet.</p> <p>Microsoft publicly announced <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/05/virtualizing-storage-for-scale-resiliency-and-efficiency.aspx">Storage Spaces</a> and <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx">ReFS</a> in early Windows 8 blog posts. Storage Spaces was of special interest to the Windows Home Server community in light of Microsoft first <a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowshomeserver/archive/2010/11/23/windows-home-server-code-name-vail-update.aspx">dropping support</a> for Drive Extender in Windows Home Server 2011, and then completely dropping Windows Home Server, and replacing it with <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/">Windows Server 2012 Essentials</a>. My personal interest was more geared towards expanding my home storage capacity in a cost effective and energy efficient way, without tying myself to proprietary hardware solutions.</p>