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Windows Home Server review
Silas (son of Silas):
I considered using FreeNAS but in the end I decided to combine my arcade and media server in one box.
I have a Asrock mobo in my arcade machine with 6 SATA ports. Currently I have a 2tb, a 1tb and a 750gb using LVM configured as a single logical volume. When space gets tight I just hang another disk off the mobo and add it to the volume to expand it. I run 64bit Ubuntu set to go into S3 sleep mode if its idle for 15 minutes. All my TVs have XBMCs hanging off them, each with a Wake-On-Lan script that runs when they are turned on that wakes up the arcade machine PC if its sleeping and then I can access my movies and music.
I have 140mm cpu, PSU and case fans so its virtually silent. I can rip full size uncompressed ISO images of DVDs onto the LV 10 at a time, then queue them up in AcidRip to turn them into AVIs, all at the same time as playing Mortal Kombat or whatever.
Santoro:
I have been running WHS for over a year now and agree it's an amazing product. I run it in a homebrew PC with leftover parts in a rack-mount case. The backups have saved my grapes at least 2-3 times.
If you have more than a few PCs you will be upgrading to Windows 7 and or Office 2007, you will get a lot of value from a Technet Plus subscription. If you can find a coupon online it will run you $250-300 and you get like ten license keys for Windows 7 (ten for each flavor!) Office, etc. They also give you one WHS key. There are tons of other products available for that flat fee including Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, etc.
It is intended for Lab geeks to evaluate MS products so the caveat is that you must agree not to run the software in a production environment. My home is not 'production,' is yours? :)
Edgedamage:
Take a look at unraid http://www.lime-technology.com/joomla/
guys have build multi-terabyte systems for cheap.
Aceldamor:
Does WHS contain the ability to create an intranet page...kinda like a lite version of Sharepoint?
Santoro:
Not really, at least not well. There may be some add-ins, but you'd probably be better installing something more full-featured like Xampp or something like it. I did this once and installed Wordpress on it.. Worked well.
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