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After a fair bit of review and study I built myself a windows home server machine from an old rack mount server with 4 hot swappable SATA drive bays.
I've had this thing running for a couple of weeks now and I couldn't be happier, I have all of the backups working for 5 machines in the house. I even have a mac backing up using time machine. Backups happen nightly and they just work.
The shared folders work very nicely (as they should!) and the drive duplication is a simple check box and it is done.
Installing the connector software on each client machine was easy. I used the web interface by going the http://my_whs_machine:55000 and things installed just fine.
I am running 2 NICs in the server and that is working fine though it isn't supported (did have some strangeness when I plugged things in differently)
It is running headless and the simple admin console lets you do everything you need with a few clicks.
MY Squeeze boxes are streaming off of it and my source safe version control runs fine from the new server.
The other day I added a second drive (total 2.5TB). Just plugged it in, clicked the add button on the server storage tab and 15 minutes or so later my storage was updated. Checked some boxes to make duplicated shares work.
The only thing that doesn't work is that my old Audiotron MP3 players are not able to log on. I've spent hours on this to no avail. Frustrating to no end but almost certainly a problem with the 8 year old Audiotron technology.
Had I a chance to do it over I probably would go out and buy one of those $300 acer machines as this server draws a bit more power than it needs to. The 1U rack server looks pretty cool though...
That is a pretty long list of things that just seemed to work. Though I'm pretty savvy when it comes to configuring networks and PC's this was a breeze. Truly a point and click process.
I probably shouldn't say this too loudly here but between WHS and Win7 I'm pretty impressed with Microsoft. It seems like they really listened to what users want on this go around.
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I've had this thing running for a couple of weeks now and I couldn't be happier, I have all of the backups working for 5 machines in the house. I even have a mac backing up using time machine. Backups happen nightly and they just work.
The shared folders work very nicely (as they should!) and the drive duplication is a simple check box and it is done.
Installing the connector software on each client machine was easy. I used the web interface by going the http://my_whs_machine:55000 and things installed just fine.
I am running 2 NICs in the server and that is working fine though it isn't supported (did have some strangeness when I plugged things in differently)
It is running headless and the simple admin console lets you do everything you need with a few clicks.
MY Squeeze boxes are streaming off of it and my source safe version control runs fine from the new server.
The other day I added a second drive (total 2.5TB). Just plugged it in, clicked the add button on the server storage tab and 15 minutes or so later my storage was updated. Checked some boxes to make duplicated shares work.
The only thing that doesn't work is that my old Audiotron MP3 players are not able to log on. I've spent hours on this to no avail. Frustrating to no end but almost certainly a problem with the 8 year old Audiotron technology.
Had I a chance to do it over I probably would go out and buy one of those $300 acer machines as this server draws a bit more power than it needs to. The 1U rack server looks pretty cool though...
That is a pretty long list of things that just seemed to work. Though I'm pretty savvy when it comes to configuring networks and PC's this was a breeze. Truly a point and click process.
I probably shouldn't say this too loudly here but between WHS and Win7 I'm pretty impressed with Microsoft. It seems like they really listened to what users want on this go around.
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