Re: Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As an aside (slightly) - I dunno if you have seen
http://www.refurb-store.com but you
can set up alerts to email you when
'refurbed' apples are available. The story goes that a refurb from apple
actually goes through more tests than a brand new one - which they have
to pass or it doesnt get sold. Oh - these are official apple refurbs

Wayne.


Phil Harris wrote:
> Not *QUITE* that simple - you can only mount a drive into an *EMPTY*
> directory so if I did it that way I'd have a share of
"Movies" with multiple
> subdirectories - not a single directory with all the movies in it
(which is
> what I was after) - I could manage that on the Mac Mini with a simple
script
> that shared a directory which was automatically populated with
symbolic
> links to the movies - I did try doing this under windows but it didn't
work
> anywhere near so reliably.
>
> I *MAY* be able to obtain an old G5 PowerMac which will have PCI-X
slots in
> it and if so then I can throw in a couple of PCI-X to 4 x eSATA cards
that
> support port multipliers and then be able to hang up to 40 SATA drives
off
> that which may encourage me to go back to the Mac side - I remain
> unconvinced so far about the ability of Windows to provide a stable
domestic
> server environment but - give it its dues - WHS *DOES* make a good
stab at
> making the administration of a home server much more accessible to the
> non-geek, remember I'm always going to be pushing these things harder
than
> maybe they should be pushed simply because I tend to be such a data
whore!
> :-D
>
> Phil
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of Richard (lists)
>> Sent: 16 December 2008 22:24
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!
>>
>> The thing is, you don't need to run out of drive letters, you just
>> mount
>> drives into directories on the C drive and then share that.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of
>> Wayne
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:55 AM
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!
>>
>>
>>
>> May I ask why you dropped the mac mini solution? From what I can
>> remember this (in its day) seemed to handle things better than
windows
>> server could.
>>
>> Wayne.
>>
>> Phil Harris wrote:
>>
>>> Oh absolutely - that was my big issue to get round myself - no
longer
>>>
>> being
>>
>>> aware of exactly what drive held what ... I've been manually
>>>
>> "fettling" my
>>
>>> storage for years to the point of anally moving terabytes of
data so
>>>
>> that
>> my
>>
>>> movies files were always stored alphabetically sorted across
all the
>>>
>> movie
>>
>>> drives (20+ of them on the old Mac Mini based server I had).
>>>
>>> I was using shared drives on an XP machine but XP doesn't
handle
>>>
>> being
>> used
>>
>>> as a server very well plus I was running out of drive letters
and
>>>
>> having
>> my
>>
>>> movies spread across over half a dozen network shares was a
pain too.
>>>
>> :-D
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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