MS Windows Home Server

The Windows Home Server Team Blog has some great data available from the Customer Experience Improvement program for Windows Home Server. 

36% of users have 2 hard drives in their Windows Home Server followed by 29% who have 4 or more, these were followed by 20% who have 3 drives and finally 15% with only the 1 hard drive.

What was even more interesting was that loads of people had more than 10 hard drives attached whilst 1 un-named individual had 27! (where does he house them)

The largest amount of available disk space that the Windows Home Server team have seen, so far was 22.06 terabytes or 22,589.44 gigabytes. With the largest amount of used disk space they had seen was 19.32 terabytes or 19,783.68 gigabytes. We are talking nearly 20 thousand gigabytes – Wow, it makes my 2x 1TB drives look minuscule.

More facts and figures are here.

Since the price reduction to the Windows Home Server software was announced the other day, it is good to see the reduction filtering down to the consumer outlets.

In the US newegg now has it available for $99.99 including free shipping, which is a $50-$60 saving on what some other suppliers are charging. Whilst in the UK company’s like Eurowide PC and ginger6 have it on sale for £72.46, a lot cheaper than the original price of £110.

Once existing stock has been sold I am sure it wont be long until the new pricing discount filters down to the remaining re-sellers.

Microsoft’s enthusiast video technology site has a video cast with the Windows Home server team.

Mark Pendergrast, Brendan Grant and Doug Berrett talk about their PDC sessions and how Live Mesh is being integrated with Windows Home Server including a prototype demo of WebGuide running as a Silverlight application from the Live Mesh desktop.

Watch it here.

Information courtesy of We Got Served.