I have a dual TV tuner in my desktop set to automatically record. Am I right in believing that the DLNA capabilities of whs2011 would allow a networked media box to play those recordings (if the recording storage target were on the whs system)? I know .wtv is a bit of a bastard format, making it hard to handle/modify.
I am fairly unfamiliar with whs (previous and current versions), and with it, the drive extender functionality. Was it basically a OS-implemented JBOD? Just googling, it seems like drivebender is a suitable replacement for the dropped feature- with the add-in being functional on whs and win7 systems too. Was the drive extender functionality removed because it would have been fundamentally constrained by the lack of GPT disk support in whs2011? Would this lack of GPT support keep add-ins, like drivebender, from forming pooled storage >3TB too? I've held on to older hard drives that see little use in my desktop besides win7 backup targets and storage of large, often unused files/folders/archieves- so being able to pool them for use by all three pcs in my house would be nice.
My only concern is the operability of my wireless network at home: I have fios broadband, with a verizon supplied 802.11-N modem/router; but, file transfers from one computer to another on the network seem capped at 700kb/s to ~1mb/s (most transfers I do are from the desktop with a pci-based 54g belkin/broadcom card, to either the second desktop with a tp-link 150Mbps 802.11b/g/n or my laptop with Intel Wireless 802.11 b/g/n + WiDi). Playing those recorded tv shows directly from files shared on the homegroup results in unwatchable choppy/underbuffered video; streaming the tv shows with wmp12 is viewable, but it makes HD recordings play with grainy reduced quality (again, wmp consistently shows a 700-900Kbps streaming rate). Is this transfer rate issue something WHS2011 would resolve, because if not, I foresee problems using a whs as the tv recording target (on account of HD recording being written to disk @ rates >1Mbps.
