Gateway, LaCie and Medion join the Windows Home Server party
In addition to touting Vista sales, Mr. Gates also provided an update on their Windows Home Server (WHS) platform during his WinHEC 2007 keynote. While he didn't offer any updates to the ambiguous "later this year" release date, he did mention that Gateway, LaCie and Medion will join HP to delivery their own hardware products based on WHS. Specifically, the DLNA-compliant Medion Home Server will offer up to 2TB of storage and should ship before the year is up. Oh, and in case you're responsible for the corporate IT budget and staff allocation, you'll be interested to know that Gates and co. are on track with Windows Server 2008 -- formerly known as Windows Server "Longhorn" -- release for the second half of 2007.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Erwos @ May 16th 2007 9:27AM
Question is, which of them is going to figure out that all that's needed is a small, cheap system box with 8-12 eSATA ports?
xxdesmus @ May 16th 2007 10:05AM
Thank god this will be available OEM. Although, the HP media version does look quite nice with the built in photo gallery/sharing.
Hopefully they can keep the costs down on these though.
Trojan @ May 16th 2007 10:44AM
Why the heck would you want to plug in 8-12 external SATA drives all with their own wall wart power adapter? Talk about a mess, and good luck getting all those drives onto a UPS.
churkl @ May 16th 2007 11:46AM
Just thinking about MS is already bad enough, and now missing in Gateway and LaCie, its like throwing a bunch of rejects in a box, and call it a product. There is a reason why Gateway failed, and a reason why Vista is hated by so many IT folks. And now LaCie is throwing its self into the prying pan. What a bad move long term wise.
MarkZ @ May 16th 2007 12:49PM
Do you even... know what this article is about?
nVidiot @ May 16th 2007 12:51PM
Do you guys know anything about this product?
It's pretty cool.. and I have a lot of IT friends in the multi-OS world ('nix and Windows) who love many of the features of Vista and love homeserver as well... Of course there young and smart and aren't afraid of change like the dinosaurs that bitch every time a new version of ANYTHING comes out and just want to keep their sys admin jobs where all they do is sit on their fat asses all day doing jack shit.
And I'm not some MS fanboy. I'd agree that Gateway and Lacie are crappy OEM's in general.. so buy it from somewhere else?
Or dont' buy it.. but don't be ignorant.
Jeff @ May 16th 2007 2:25PM
I'm young. It doesn't take a dinosour to avoid the boiling tar pit of vista. :-P
coldracerx @ May 16th 2007 3:05PM
I do not see the point of it now
I am in the beta program and I do not find any use for it in a power users config
I have a server that has tons of storage space and I have active directory setup so each users has their data where it needs to be and info like videos and stuff is where it needs to be.
Only advantage is the dynamic disk thing but then why not use a form of software raid and enable duplication. Also Server 2008 will have this feature and with my msdn account I am sure I will get a copy of that so no big deal here I see it as a waste and the comsumers that need the storage like us would have already have a working solution so no need for this. Something for OEM to sell to the loosers that buy Dells and HP and do not build their own.
Roflgoat @ May 16th 2007 4:04PM
@Jeff
I'm not a dinosaur, probably younger than you, but you do know what this is, right? It's news about some companies that are going to use this OS on their computers.
Or I could be blind and the header could be "Let's Debate Vista."
And I have Vista. It's actually not a boiling tar pit, or a clever metaphor. It's an OS.
:-P
Bloobie @ May 17th 2007 12:09AM
Microsoft is aware that almost all ISP's do not allow home users to run servers from behind their Internet connection, right? :P
JoeBob @ May 17th 2007 1:40AM
Not to beat a dead, uh, steer, but how can a server OS that's already 4 years late be called "on track" by any stretch of the imagination?
And based on past performance, running WHS seems about as smart and secure as leaving your front door open and stacking your jewelry and stereo on the front steps.