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Sucks to be you. I've got the iDevice. Damned if I know what it does, as it lacks buttons, a screen, I/O, or any kind of labelling, but it's made of shiny metal and considering how much it cost it must be superior in every way.]]>Jul 17th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/
I recently did and it's really great, i'm no longer tied to having my data on a big clunky desktop that needs to be running all the time, hooked up to kbd/monitor, etc. it sits in the corner, backs stuff up and serves up data. only 44 watts running. (my desktop pc is 100-140 watts, granted it's old).

Anywya get the HP MediaSmart version, they've added a lot of nice "special sauce" features on top of WHS, like TwonkyMedia server, iTunes server, time machine compatibility, etc. Also its really nice hardware.
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Frankly if this would record TV shows instead of my other desktop, I would buy it in a heartbeat.]]>Jul 17th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/
You won't see MC integration in WHS until you get the next retail release of WHS I suspect. That's when it will move to the Server 2008 code base that's shared with Vista/7.]]>Jul 17th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 18th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/
I just wish you could restore a computer wirelessly. I'd hate to have to drag one of my desktops and a monitor to the server to restore it.]]>Jul 17th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/
It is funny how the better things MS does are the ones they tend to ignore... Marketing this tech in louder ways would be a benefit to them in my opinion, but very few home users even knows that it exists. Total fumble MS!!!]]>Jul 17th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/
Pro's
It is functional.
It is relatively easy to add hard drives to.

Con's
It is dog slow. 8 - 9 MB/s transfer speeds across a local network. I've found only 12 MB/s transfer speed successes in ideal Cat6 environments.
Difficult to upgrade memory or CPU. Doable, but time consuming.
New features are added but old hardware is ignored. There are already features that have been added to the server that aren't supported.

My recommendation? Build your own. I went with HP because I wanted something nice, neat and small and didn't have the time or money to build it into a micro-ATX.]]>Jul 17th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 18th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 31st 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/Jul 17th 2009 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/software as a domain controller or otherwise make
use of DCPromo.exe. You also may not join the
server software to any Active Directory domain."
- Windows Home Server EULA

It makes sense from their perspective; why have WHS compete with Windows Server 2008? That and domains are more of a corporate tool while home users have workroups.]]>Jul 17th 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/
Building a Home Server was one of the most fun projects I've ever done, and I cannot strongly recommend them enough. Hopefully this fixes the 7 Restore buf where if you switch to a drive that doesn't have the 100MB system reserved partition you can't restore.]]>Jul 18th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-adds-windows-7-convenience/
It wouldn't necessarily have to have full AD Roaming profiles. A connector installed on the desktop PCs that call up customized settings such as icons, favorites, email, documents, etc.. when the user is logged on can't possibly be that hard to do. With network and WiFi speeds the way they are, streaming music, videos and working on documents stored centrally on the server can't be all that hard.



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