Re: What are you using for home servers?

Thanks - it confirmed everything else I heard I have an EX 495 on order.

Cheers
Mark

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Brad Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> The answer is really whether you want a hands off storage and server box,
> or a box which can act as a storage machine as well as a functional PC.
>
> I have an HP 485, currently loaded with 2 x 2TB + 2 x 1TB drives. Aside
> from being my duplicated file storage machine, it takes backups from both
> Windows and Mac machines (chosen because HP ships Mac software to make it a
> Time Machine target), it's my "always on" Windows Live Sync machine and
> serves content to my Apple TV (music, movies, TV shows). And it's done so
> very well, minus one scary 48 hour period during a drive failure<http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/rescuing-data-from-windows-home-server.html>
> .
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Mark Levison <mark-r0EpITdELjZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I'm considering a HP Windows Home Server EX495:
>> http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/10/06/hands-on-hp-ex495-mediasmart-server/with Intel® Pentium® 2.5 GHZ 64-bit Dual Core and 2GB of RAM. I'm wondering
>> is this enough to as a music, video and backup server? I keep on seeing
>> iCore 7 desktops for similar prices (~$C 750) and while they don't have the
>> same number of drive bays.
>>
>> What do you do? Is it doing the job?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mark Levison
>>
>>
>>
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