I built mine using a Dell Power Edge server with 4gigs of RAM, and so far it's been great. There are a number of video codecs that my PS3 doesn't recognize at all, even though they'd be recognize if they were stored in the PS3's hdd. I hope MS figures that one out without me having to run WMP11. The music and picture are accessible via pc, PS3, and XBMC. XBMC recognizes everything from the server. I've read somewhere that people with two hdd are more at risk of suffering from this bug than those with single drives. So, until MS comes out with a working fix, I'm sticking to just one.
For those Linux fans, I'd like for you to show me a Linux option that offers what MS is doing here. I'm challenging you because my trial WHS will expire in 2 months, so if I can save $170, I'm all for it.
If you don't even investigate what Linux does offer why in the world would you expect some community member to try to sell it to you? It's your $170, you figure it out.
For just a fraction more (the price includes 3 years of support IIRC) you could have an entire Novell server (Novell SMB package) with Novell directory (single sign on, roaming profiles), Groupwise and pretty much everything that MS charges well over a $10,000 for. If that's too much, take a look at some of the free linux distributions, samba Runs on just about every *NIX OS out there and 100% of the network storage drives come with it.
Well, I've looked around and all I find are incomplete tutorials that only talk about how great and affordable a Linux server would be or I end up with incomplete setups. My issue is that a lot of people like to present Linux as the answer to all their problems. I don't have any problems with Linux at all. I've tried Linspire and Ubuntu. They're not that bad and keep on getting better with their GUI. I also know that there are plenty of Linux packages out there that are compiled to concentrate in certain functions, including Linux Media Center and the likes.
My question was that I'm looking for feedback, and perhaps links, to setups that have worked for some of the readers. That's all.
@Trent, I think that's the point - this isn't meant to be a Novell server with all the bells and whistles. And even if it was, you still wouldn't get the features that WHS has such as automatic backup of all PCs without file duplication, the ability to automatically expand the storage pool by just adding disks and most importantly simple, straight forward, two-minute configuration.
This corruption bug is a huge issue and it means that many people aren't using the file server aspect of their WHS to its full potential but you shouldn't dismiss the product so easily.
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I built mine using a Dell Power Edge server with 4gigs of RAM, and so far it's been great. There are a number of video codecs that my PS3 doesn't recognize at all, even though they'd be recognize if they were stored in the PS3's hdd. I hope MS figures that one out without me having to run WMP11. The music and picture are accessible via pc, PS3, and XBMC. XBMC recognizes everything from the server. I've read somewhere that people with two hdd are more at risk of suffering from this bug than those with single drives. So, until MS comes out with a working fix, I'm sticking to just one.
For those Linux fans, I'd like for you to show me a Linux option that offers what MS is doing here. I'm challenging you because my trial WHS will expire in 2 months, so if I can save $170, I'm all for it.
If you don't even investigate what Linux does offer why in the world would you expect some community member to try to sell it to you? It's your $170, you figure it out.
For just a fraction more (the price includes 3 years of support IIRC) you could have an entire Novell server (Novell SMB package) with Novell directory (single sign on, roaming profiles), Groupwise and pretty much everything that MS charges well over a $10,000 for. If that's too much, take a look at some of the free linux distributions, samba Runs on just about every *NIX OS out there and 100% of the network storage drives come with it.
Well, I've looked around and all I find are incomplete tutorials that only talk about how great and affordable a Linux server would be or I end up with incomplete setups. My issue is that a lot of people like to present Linux as the answer to all their problems. I don't have any problems with Linux at all. I've tried Linspire and Ubuntu. They're not that bad and keep on getting better with their GUI. I also know that there are plenty of Linux packages out there that are compiled to concentrate in certain functions, including Linux Media Center and the likes.
My question was that I'm looking for feedback, and perhaps links, to setups that have worked for some of the readers. That's all.
@Trent, I think that's the point - this isn't meant to be a Novell server with all the bells and whistles. And even if it was, you still wouldn't get the features that WHS has such as automatic backup of all PCs without file duplication, the ability to automatically expand the storage pool by just adding disks and most importantly simple, straight forward, two-minute configuration.
This corruption bug is a huge issue and it means that many people aren't using the file server aspect of their WHS to its full potential but you shouldn't dismiss the product so easily.