jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Dec 20 11:11:32 CST 2007
Yep, I think that makes sense in most cases. It is just a box and HP has got it all working for you. I just like the pain. ;-) John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:42 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Cc: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Home Server update I ordered the HP one just a moment ago. Interestingly enough I had a hard drive crash Tuesday evening on my Vista box. It was the second drive so it was only my data that was lost. I did have a pretty decent backup strategy on that particular system - using th FILE BACKUP that is built into Vista to backup on a weekly basis to an external USB drive. Ironically it was the backup process failing on Tuesday morning that alerted me to the drive problem. So I replaced that drive yesterday and the data restore was running this morning when I left for work. But I got to thinking that I don't have adequate backup strategies for my laptop, my wife's laptop or a couple of older less often used systems. So this morning I started looking at building a server to run the Windows Home Server on and came to the conclusion that I wasn't going to be saving much by rolling my own. And since I haven't done that on a regular desktop system, perhaps geting a prebuilt one that has the proper components that all work together correctly might be a better choice for ME, myself and I. Well and my wife. I mentioned to her that we hadn't backed up her system recently this morning and she indicated that she really wouldn't want to lose all of her e-mail and music. So I have her backing on spending the $600. Amazon has it for $577 with Free Shipping. GK On 12/20/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > I have ordered pieces to build my own. I have pieces and parts > (including the X2 processor I was going to give away) that I can use > to build one of these things. I did a spreadsheet to discover how > much it would cost me to build what HP is selling for $600 and it > turns out that the HP box is a pretty reasonable price. It would cost > me about $500 to build what they are selling for $600. Of course my > build has a dual core and 2 gigs of ram instead of a "celeron" level > single core and 512M memory. Other than that the specs are pretty similar, and those changes cost about $50. > > That is the point though is that if you build your own you can do what > you want with the thing. This is a Server 2003 core OS and according > to what I saw yesterday, with RDT you can actually get in and see the > OS as a true Windows 2003 machine instead of using the "simplified" > interface that they provide. This server will have "plug-ins" that > can do other things like serve AV feeds or anything else that a server > can do, so having a more powerful CPU and more memory might be useful. > For example you could also have the server do virtual machines, run > SQL Server in that virtual machine etc. IOW get more use out of it than just a windows home server. > > So anyway, I should get delivery of the OS and parts required to build > one of these and with luck will have it done and working by the > Monday. the one thing I am really looking forward to is the complete > and automatic backup of all my machines, on a "raid like" system > (duplicated storage). They claim to have a complete system restore form a boot CD. > > I'll let you know how it goes. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com