Windows Home Server (1 Viewer)

[ChristianW]

So...

Have anyone but me thought about this? Don't know if you have read about or seen this, but MS is coming out with a server for the home. Supposed to run headless and be administered from remote computers. Supposed use is, among other, media storage and backup.

How difficult do you think it would be to embed (sorry for choice of words, it's actually not XP embedded, it's a derivative of the Windows Server codebase) the TV-Engine server into this? I'm watching the Channel9 video about it now, and they say it's easily expandable. Anything that can install on Windows Server can be installed on the Home Server platform.

Looks pretty interresting. 4*500Gb drives and 3*dualtuner pci cards in one of those and you have a nice start

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=270965#270965

-Christian-

 

[funkstar]

i've read a little about this too. Will be good to read some proper hard on reviews when it becomes available, but there does seem to be a lot of potential there.

There is conflicting iew about how this will be available. Some say it is only for OEMs, others say you will be able to buy it retail.

 

[warwon]

Thats all we need, is a pre-configured server by MS that my Mom can use.

That is the safest way to store your information

Linux can already do most of that.

Either OEM, or install it on current hard I can't trust MS with that much access

 

[funkstar]

thats up to you. If the Microsoft solution is fundamentaly flawed then they are answerable and will have to get it sorted. If a Linux solution doesn't work people just shrug and remind you it is free.

 

[cowpie]

^Windows can also mean=antivirus subscriptions

 

[funkstar]

or you could just use Avast. it's free and much better than McAfee or Norton

Other good free AV tools are available. Most of which are better than the two large commercial ones.

 

[Inker]

Anyways....

As far as I understand it it's just a 2003 server box with some missing services + an additional service + a client frontend to call into this service.

The most exiting thing for me would probably be the headless backup and easily expandable data retention system (raid but not raid....will have to read more about that).

They explicitely say they want devs to build services for it so I guess this could make an ideal platform for the tv-server. I'm almost betting it would be fairly easy to make it work, or may even work just out of the box.

I'm only buying if I can get it through retail though.