RE: MS Home Server

["ReynoldsB" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,



Did you ever buy one of these?



Did anyone buy one?



I am thinking of buying one and wondered what people thought of them.



B.



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steve Healey
Sent: 18 January 2008 12:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] MS Home Server



I know a number of you guys have been running the various beta version of
MS
Home Server and I wondered what the general feeling was?

I am replacing my rather large, 6 year old and over cumbersome storage
server with a NAS, probably a rack mounted Linksys, but I still need a
small
server to run a couple of applications. My first thought was to keep the
old
beast running but it does seem a waste of space and energy so I've have a
google around and found http://www.tranquil
<http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/>
pc-shop.co.uk/ and they do what
looks like a very nice rack mountable solution with a very small footprint
and energy consumption

So the questions -

1. Should I jump on the MS Home Server band wagon?

2. Should I go for an off the shelf hardware solution or in the true
nature of HA pull my finger out and build one from scratch?

Many thanks,

Steve



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