Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 11:37:11 CST 2007
As I know you build all your other systems too I think it is the right thing for you to do. I just didn't see it as the right thing for me. Good luck with your build. Mines supposedly not shipping until 12/26 so I won't be seeing it until early next year probably. GK On 12/20/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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