I'm sure I'm just not seeing the big picture here. But I can buy a SATA RAID array for about $1,300 and connect it directly to my PC. Throw in as many drives as it can hold and they will all show up as one drive on the SATA connection that I plug it into. I can then attach a NAS to the network for off-line storage. The big plus will be that I *will* be able to stream from my setup from an extender. And I have a feeling that even going the RAID array route I will end up paying less both initially and in the long run.
I'm sure that someone will show me the error in my logic. But until then I'm just not feeling the home server yet.
The big picture you are missing is that this unit, no doubt, will refuse to "play nice" with other things-- like Macs and LINUX boxes on your home network. It will be heavily "DRM'ed"; will report your every move to Redmond; and will reject iTunes AAC files as well as any open format, like MP3.
At least, that's what I would expect. It is mostly to "poison" competing products; not to provide any benefits to MSFT's customers.
the big picture is that for the hundreds of thousands of users out there that have all their pictures on 1 single IDE drive and have no idea how to do a backup may have a workable solution, they don't realize that their current solution is a ticking time bomb.
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I'm sure I'm just not seeing the big picture here. But I can buy a SATA RAID array for about $1,300 and connect it directly to my PC. Throw in as many drives as it can hold and they will all show up as one drive on the SATA connection that I plug it into.
I can then attach a NAS to the network for off-line storage.
The big plus will be that I *will* be able to stream from my setup from an extender. And I have a feeling that even going the RAID array route I will end up paying less both initially and in the long run.
I'm sure that someone will show me the error in my logic. But until then I'm just not feeling the home server yet.
The big picture you are missing is that this unit, no doubt, will refuse to "play nice" with other things-- like Macs and LINUX boxes on your home network. It will be heavily "DRM'ed"; will report your every move to Redmond; and will reject iTunes AAC files as well as any open format, like MP3.
At least, that's what I would expect. It is mostly to "poison" competing products; not to provide any benefits to MSFT's customers.
the big picture is that for the hundreds of thousands of users out there that have all their pictures on 1 single IDE drive and have no idea how to do a backup may have a workable solution, they don't realize that their current solution is a ticking time bomb.