Hi There,

My friend told me about Home Server, and when I have a read about it, wow
The only feature that interest me is "Drive Extender"

(taken from Windows Home Server Technical Brief - Drive Extender.docx)
"....
As you add more hard
drives to your home server, they are treated as a single large pool of
available storage space. You no longer need to deal with drive letters (such as
E:, F:, and G: ) because you can add more hard drives."
....
....
Windows Home Server Drive Extender is different than and more powerful than a 
redundant array of independent disks (RAID) in several ways:

•    You can use any hard drive, any time. You are not restricted to adding 
more hard drives of the same type and size. When you want to grow your home 
server storage, you can buy and add any hard drive you like. 
•    Internal and external hard drives can be used to grow your storage. No 
space in your home computer case? No problem—plug in one or more hard drives of 
your choice.
•    Drive removal is easy. After you have had your home server for awhile, you 
may want to remove older, smaller hard drives and add new, larger hard drives 
so that you can store more files.
...."

Basically, we can add HDD without needing of RAID software or controller
It will treat them as a single partition and by the reading, it also check its 
performance and health

"....
The Windows Home Server Console enables you to configure the server storage and 
shared folders on your home server. The Server Storage tab allows you to view, 
add, and remove hard drives on your home server. You can see the status of your 
server storage, and attempt to repair hard drives that show a status of 
Unhealthy. You can also see a graphical representation of the total disk-space 
usage on your home server. 
..."

The question is. What would be any package that can replace this Home Server in 
Debian' way
This OS with its features, its very cheap, but, I would prefer to use Debian if 
there is any similar package

Been trying to googling with no answer...

Any links/suggestions/direction/etc would be much appreciated
And have a good  Easter

Cheer.


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