Check out freenas. 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. > > -- > "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 > > ~ 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
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