Originally Posted by
nmenaker
so, it isn't really as great as RAID CAN be, but it is also much faster and more specific.
I'll give you "more specific" since you actually choose what you want to have drive-independent redundancy on, though that can be a bad thing if you forget to choose the data you want protected.
The one I'm not at all sure of is "faster." How is WHS faster?
As for protecting the OS volume, it just depends on whether that is on a RAID volume or not; WHS and a traditional RAID storage solution are the same in that regard. My current solution has a stand-alone boot volume and RAID 1 for my data. If the boot volume dies I'm down, but I haven't lost any data. I'm OK with that.