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Windows Home Server
Posted: 30 Jan 2009, 10:09
by daofcmacg
Wassup guys, does anybody know about this OS and or have any opinions? I am looking to buy or build a new computer and I'm thinking about going this route.
DA
Posted: 30 Jan 2009, 10:50
by VEGETA
think of it as a scaled down version of the wondows server editions. Its not Vista realy as far as I know. If you are using this as a server, ie hosting fiels and other such thigns fine but if this will be gaming and thigns of that nature don't bother. For a general desktop get XP or Vista, or wait a little bit for windows 7 to hit which they really reworked and fixed the vista interface and some functionality. From all reports its a decent setup
Posted: 30 Jan 2009, 12:51
by daofcmacg
it will Strictly be used as a file server only, something to do centralized backups and a central location for very important documents and all our videos and pictures. I found a specilazed box by HP that is designed around Home Server with a terabyte of space and scalable up to Home Servers max of 16terabytes (expensive as hell to do four 4TB drives). Plus I like the feature of allowing friends and family to have the options of looking at pictures, video's etc. that you publish to the web.
DAHP MediaSmart Server EX487
Posted: 30 Jan 2009, 20:13
by Hammer
huh?? "four 4TB drives"
where would one get 4TB drives?
Posted: 30 Jan 2009, 22:07
by daofcmacg
I thought the same thing, of course you wouldn't do it all with internal drivers you would need external as well and guess what it comes with a eSATA port plus USB 2.0 so there goes your extra drives. There is 4 total internal and 4 USB ports plus 1 eSATA. IF they are out there steel they would be ridiculously expensive.
DA
Posted: 31 Jan 2009, 16:24
by Softball
Biggest drive I have seen commercially is 2TB. Maybe they are clustered together in a RAID 5 configuration?
Posted: 31 Jan 2009, 19:50
by Hammer
there is no such things as 4TB drives.
2TB drives are just coming in as samples from major manufacturers in March or later for qualification purposes.
Posted: 31 Jan 2009, 21:44
by daofcmacg
I guess I'm not speaking english eh.
DA
Posted: 03 Feb 2009, 13:48
by BaD KaRmA
I've heard WHS had some RAID issues in the past. I believe it's been fixed recenlty though. I have a 2+TB fileserver running linux software RAID5. Doubles as my Left4Dead server, TV streaming server, etc.