It allows redundancy and volumes across physical HDD at the file level, and supposedly HDD removed from a Storage Space pool are readable independently.
This is not true, AND it's the big difference between the Drive Extender of WHS and Storage Spaces.
If that is the case, that's a big step back from DE. However, I did not read anything clear on this in their very documentation (hence my "supposedly"). Have you actually tested this? My guess is that a drive is not immediately readable but it becomes so after few clicks in Disk Manager. Just a guess.
AFAIK, there is also no redundancy with Storage Spaces, only drive pooling, making this even more dangerous.
There actually is. It can be configured up to double drive redundancy. This is clearly stated by MS. I think SS would not even make sense without redundancy.
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