Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 10:41:52 CST 2007
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