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On 10/12/10, Steve Hanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just one small note on the HP Media Smart boxen. To do anything more than
> what is provided via the HP console you need to RDP in to the box. HP will
> not support *anything* that requires or that is configured by RDP ing in to
> the home server. (I worked support for HP Media Smart for a wee while)
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
>   Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:57 AM
>   To: NT System Admin Issues
>   Subject: Home server system
>
>
>   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.
>
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> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
> a question."
>
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