Storage Spaces Direct cheapens itself, hardware-wise, adds NVDIMM support

Microsoft’s released a new Windows Server Insider Preview Build – number 17074, to be precise – and the most notable new bits are in the Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) software-defined storage code. Redmond’s coders have managed to add support for storage-class memory to S2D because, as Microsoft put it, doing so “unlocks a new …

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Removal of SES could enable cheap S2D

Part of the problem I've had in trying S2D on anything other than Hyper-V VMs has been finding cheap hardware supporting SES. Removing that requirement is possibly the nicest part of the new build for me, and time to download it and play I suspect.