Windows Home Server
Anyone using this ?
Is it reliable (for windows), any good, easy to use ?
cheers
Aaron
Anyone using this ?
Is it reliable (for windows), any good, easy to use ?
cheers
Aaron
Windows Home Server ?
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I've been using it for several months (actually running it as a VM under Hyper-V).
It is very reliable - the only problems caused by me messing about
It's pretty easy to use and can be reinstalled ok without losing previous data. It is good for what is was designed for - file sharing and backups across a Home network that has one or more client desktop/laptops.
The Media sharing is not brilliant if you have a huge music library and it won't stream some of the latest video codecs. There are documented ways on how to bodge it into using WMP11, which is better but still not a 100% fix for above problems.
What hardware were you thinking of? Runs fine with 512MB (any more is probably a waste) - I'd suggest gigabit Lan if possible (of course you'll need an appropriate router/hub - I'm eagerly awaiting this to get to market) and several disks (so you can get data redundancy).
I've been using it for several months (actually running it as a VM under Hyper-V).
It is very reliable - the only problems caused by me messing about
It's pretty easy to use and can be reinstalled ok without losing previous data. It is good for what is was designed for - file sharing and backups across a Home network that has one or more client desktop/laptops.
The Media sharing is not brilliant if you have a huge music library and it won't stream some of the latest video codecs. There are documented ways on how to bodge it into using WMP11, which is better but still not a 100% fix for above problems.
What hardware were you thinking of? Runs fine with 512MB (any more is probably a waste) - I'd suggest gigabit Lan if possible (of course you'll need an appropriate router/hub - I'm eagerly awaiting this to get to market) and several disks (so you can get data redundancy).
Like that Netgear, especially the USB bit, kind of makes the Home Server redundant.
Especially if you run a version of Windows 7 (e.g. Ultimate) that allows backup to Network shared folders.
I couldn't get the WHS power pack 3 beta to install which has a number of Windows 7 "features" - such as seamless WHS user shared folder within local Libraries. I've always had a shortcut to my WHS documents folder anyway
Especially if you run a version of Windows 7 (e.g. Ultimate) that allows backup to Network shared folders.
I couldn't get the WHS power pack 3 beta to install which has a number of Windows 7 "features" - such as seamless WHS user shared folder within local Libraries. I've always had a shortcut to my WHS documents folder anyway
Oddly, that's what this machine is now running, took ages to upgrade Vista to 7, but all seems to work afterwards and on brief encounter 7 is what Vista should have been in several ways.
original_concept
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Yes, WHS (running PP3 beta) is very good and runs 24x7x365.
I've been using it for a over a year to backup a few machines, Win7, XP and Vista based.
I only pop onto the console to run any updates once in a while when I remember. Its never crashed or done anything silly and I have used it to restore data (not full machines) which saved my bacon one time.
Oh, as stated before use Gigabit LAN unless you've got really small amounts of data to backup.
Highly recommended.
I've been using it for a over a year to backup a few machines, Win7, XP and Vista based.
I only pop onto the console to run any updates once in a while when I remember. Its never crashed or done anything silly and I have used it to restore data (not full machines) which saved my bacon one time.
Oh, as stated before use Gigabit LAN unless you've got really small amounts of data to backup.
Highly recommended.
Steve
Registered user
So I'm not the only one then? Took around 3 hours to upgrade each of our 3 laptops.
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