WHS functionality in Windows 7?

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I've been looking into buying a Windows Home Server recently and one feature in particular piqued my interest - the ability to add hard-drives to an storage volume.

It sounds like a great feature. I've got quite a large media collection (no, not porn :p) so being able to expand a volume when I fill one hard-drive would be ideal - especially with WHS's ability to automatically back-up individual folders.

I'm probably not going to buy a WHS but I'd really like this functionality. Does anyone know if this functionality is in Windows 7? If so, which versions?
 
Your best bet is to use a RAID controller which supports extending an array whilst preserving the data. That way you can set up an array of disks which are presented to the OS as a single drive (via striping, mirroring or simple JBOD) and then add more drives to the array as required.

Sounds expensive. :)

Oh well, maybe I'll look at turning an old machine into a WHS the next time I upgrade my main rig.
 
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