I have a HP Windows Home Server. It 'just works'. It does nightly imaged based backups of my families computers. It has saved me from some data lose when my wife accidentally deleted some pictures, we were able to find and restore them from the image based backups. We centralized my music and movie collection. As my DVD player is a DLNA device I am able to stream media from it. It notifies me when one of the systems is not updating AV definitions as well. It consumes low power and in general just sits there and works. I don't exploit half the features and am more then happy I got it.
I am looking forward to getting the VAIL based one when it comes out. I would not put any VMs on it, but I got an HP Pavillion desktop, stuck 8GB of ram in it and loaded up a HyperV instance with 3 additional 300GB drives for my home lab. That will run 4-6 guest systems which is generally enough for what I am learning at any given time. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Matt Plahtinsky <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > ~ 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
