quote: It effects a very SMALL % of customers,
quote: ..Walsh acknowledges that the list of potential corruption candidates has greatly grown..
quote: ..affects a significant portion of users..
quote: ..still a substantial portion of users...
quote: o then by your logic Apple should also get a class action for its bug in Leopard that caused data LOSS from a far simpler set of events.
quote: Are freaking illiterate?
quote: who's primary role is to store data using redundant storage
quote: I beta tested WHS last summer and was astonished when they suddenly announced it was RTMed and I hadn't been able to complete a single backup without a failure.
quote: Microsoft has never deserved a class action suit more than with WHS. It's software fraud, completely useless. And ironically, right on the heels of their latest code-gem, Vista.
quote: Calm down there cowboy. WHS is still an OEM OS, meaning manufacturers can specifically make only 1 drive systems to prevent this problem. In fact for all you know, this is already being done.
quote: The arcticle (sic) clearly states that when you are shadowing your drives (redundancy) this problem does not exist.. but ok..
quote: Also, if users use folder duplication on their multiple drive setup the risk is elminated.
quote: Why anyone would put so much effort in doing so demonstrates why I've come to just vote posts down instead of attempting to exchange reasonable dialog with the growing majority of clueless posters on these forums.
quote: Also, you comment, a few posts back that WHS was completely useless, based on your experience of beta software.
quote: I would hardly call your posts reasonable, you've made vast sweeping generalizations based on your personal experience.
quote: The reason people might defend the software itself is because they've had no real problems with it and consider it a good product, like me.
quote: Microsoft has never deserved a class action suit more than with WHS. It's software fraud, completely useless.
quote: Also, if users use folder duplication on their multiple drive setup the risk is elminated. Thus the vulnerable population consists of multi-HD users not implementing folder duplication, still a substantial portion of users.
quote: Microsoft now states that the problem appears to be triggered by the saving of "alternate data streams" by programs, which is incompatible with the "Drive Extender" method which WHS uses to make multiple physical hard drives appear like a single hard disk.