MS Windows Home Server

Blog “Respect Sakura” has listed 4 important rules in her article entitled Home Server Recommendations Part 1, which include:

• Buy the biggest drive you can afford for your SYS volume
• Why you should Keep your total amount of volumes low e.g. maximum of 4 to 6.
• Use the onboard SATA, and don’t bother with any RAID setups
• When removing a drive, wait a day or two before removing any more

Give it a read for all the info.

Blogger Ian Dixon of TheDigitalLifestyle.com has posted a video of the unboxing of the HP MediaSmart Server.

Unboxing of a HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server

Small Business Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Kevin Weilbacher gave a two and a half hour presentation and demo on Windows Home Server at his local Tamba Bay SBS User Group and has kindly posted for us the Q&A from the event which can be found here.