Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 10:51:05 CST 2007
Yes, that is correct Jon http://tinyurl.com/2lwzzz is the HP site on it. There are versions with 2 - 500 GB drives too though so perhaps that is what you were looking at? http://tinyurl.com/3dh8fl is the Amazon site over here on it GK On 12/20/07, Jon Tydda <jon.tydda at alcontrol.com> wrote: > Is that the HP Media Smart Home Server? I just looked it up on Amazon.co.uk, and it'd cost me the equivalent of $900 to buy it here. That sucks. Looks like I'll be building my own... > > > Jon > > -----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 4:42 PM > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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