I have WHS running on my own box. Have three laptops in the house (2 Vista, 1 Windows7) and the server has a 250Gig driver with 2-1TB drives set to duplication mode for storage. I also run Playon (w/Hulu/Netflix) and hook it up to XBox360.
Some comments/thoughts:
Video runs much better through Playon and the AVI's I stream through the mymedia (basically playon reads a folder on the WHS box) than my old Vista/XBox setup.
Backups are a piece of cake and work well. I also like the remote access to my media over the 'net..
Problems:
I had to reboot a few times - seems like if I'm trying to play videos through the Xbox while multiple backups are occurring, WHS (a dual core, 3 Gigs RAM) freeze - seems like a memory leak.
Also, getting drivers to work on your own PC is problematic. Some drivers read the OS version as XP, others NT. Had to play around quite a bit to get my video and sound card to work.
Finally, Itunes won't install on it. I had planned on using the WHS as a house music box and sharing the libary out to the laptops.
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I have WHS running on my own box. Have three laptops in the house (2 Vista, 1 Windows7) and the server has a 250Gig driver with 2-1TB drives set to duplication mode for storage. I also run Playon (w/Hulu/Netflix) and hook it up to XBox360.
Some comments/thoughts:
Video runs much better through Playon and the AVI's I stream through the mymedia (basically playon reads a folder on the WHS box) than my old Vista/XBox setup.
Backups are a piece of cake and work well. I also like the remote access to my media over the 'net..
Problems:
I had to reboot a few times - seems like if I'm trying to play videos through the Xbox while multiple backups are occurring, WHS (a dual core, 3 Gigs RAM) freeze - seems like a memory leak.
Also, getting drivers to work on your own PC is problematic. Some drivers read the OS version as XP, others NT. Had to play around quite a bit to get my video and sound card to work.
Finally, Itunes won't install on it. I had planned on using the WHS as a house music box and sharing the libary out to the laptops.
@brian: "Finally, Itunes won't install on it. I had planned on using the WHS as a house music box and sharing the libary out to the laptops."
Can't you just run iTunes on the laptops and let them access the files on the WHS?