Re: MS Home Server

[Jon Payne <jgpayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it's great....

Apart from that it suffers from data corruption on accessing data on the
server in some circumstances (which I've suffered from). Backups are ok.

Until they fix this serious issue, that effectively prevents you from using
it as a file server, then it's useless as far as I'm concerned. I'm just
crossing by fingers until they do fix it :-(


----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Healey <steve.healey@xxxxxxx>
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, 18 January, 2008 12:55:36 PM
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.tranquilpc-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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