I Like WHS

So far seems to be working ok

Hard drive installed not big enough to back up my PCs.  Need a couple of big 500gb ata drives

Checked online prices and you can buy a drive enclosure with USB 2.0 connection for the same price as a bare bones drive!

It would make more sense to buy the USB Hard drives and strip out the drives for use in the server.  I would then be able to put a couple of spare small capacity drives in the enclosures for portable storage

I have a couple of Maxtor Nas drives with 300gb disks.  I may as well use these for now and save a bit of cash

WHS. Windows Home Server

I at last got around to installing RC1 of Windows Home Server (WHS) on a spare PC.  The full version has been out a few months now

At first I could not see it on my network.  I had to load a NIC driver.  Surprisingly my nforce NIC was not recognised by the install CD.  I guess this could be fixed on the final release

So far it all seems to work ok.  I will see how well it backs up my PCs tonight

Useful links for those who may want to no more

Microsoft's WHS home page

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