I've done a bit of searching of the forums on this one so do forgive me if it's already been asked....

I was always under the impression that the file format used by WHS 2011 was not standard NTFS so if your server failed you couldn't read your data drives in just any PC like we could with WHS v1. But then listening to a podcast this morning I heard a WHS MVP say this was not the case.

Could someone clear this up? Maybe I'm remembering back to when the initial releases of WHS 2011 still had drive extender....

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EX490 with 7TB storage

No, they are standard NTFS formated files and can be read in any windows system.

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HP EX470, 4 GIG, 4200+ EE SFF, WHS V1, Production
HP EX485, 4 GIG, E5800, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Transfer Server, Backup Server
HP EX490, 4 GIG, Q9400S, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Mediaserver
HP EX485, 4 GIG, Q8200S, WHS 2011, ITUNES Server

The new Drive Extender that was removed from WHS 2011 was in an unreadable format, that's probably what you are remembering.

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Alex Kuretz
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Thanks guys for clearing that up!

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EX490 with 7TB storage