What do you intend to do with this server besides provide storage? Your topic says server, but your comments imply NAS.
Home Server seems okay, but I would think you could do just as well with a more direct configuration. I built a nice virtual host server for my home network for under $1500, and that was in 2008. Would be even less expensive to do today. *-ASB* On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:57 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > Any recommendations for a reliable and hopefully fairly cheap server system > for the home? One of my colleagues recommended the HP MediaSmart ex475 > coupled with Windows Home Server, are there anything else people can > recommend? Also, does Windows Home Server offer any particular software or > benefits or is it just aimed at being simple for the non-technical user? I > can see it has backup and remote access capabilities - I'm not really that > bothered about the remote access features for sharing across the internet, > but anything else is probably a plus. How much extra does the Home Server > stuff give you when compared to some sort of baby NAS device like a > TeraStation? > > I was hoping to be able to get something decent for under £1000, at the > least. Storage, availability and backup are probably the primary concerns > I'm addressing, but I'm open to all sorts of other features as well. I don't > have masses of data at the moment, but I might start storing VM files on > there for some testing purposes, so I'll probably need a wedge of capacity. > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
