Let's be honest...How many people actually using WHSv1 are actually a typical consumer? I doubt a single person reading these threads would be considered a typical consumer. Did I like DE, yes. Did I like the proprietary
nature of DE, no. I do find WHS2011 much more responsive, and the installation was one of the most simple installs of an OS I can recall!
This may have been touted as being for the average consumer, but unlikely those people ever bought a copy.
So, since we are not typical consumers, why not turn on the DFS role, make a DFSROOT, and what I did was mount a 2TB drive, and shared it as MY MOVIES 1, added it to the DFS, added a 1.5 TB drive, shared it as MY MOVIES 2, etc, etc. No drive letters
need be assigned, I shared into an empty NTFS folder, no letters assigned.
While I will miss the neat pie chart of disk stogage allocation, I think this can work. Now, if they turned WHS2011 into an OS that can be a tuner farm, and serve tuners to a google tv replacement, that would be awesome. For those who like WHS
2011, but miss DE, this might work for you as well. It will only allow 1 DFS folder , unless you use a full server OS like Server 2008 R2 with a DFS role.
