WHS

[Kirby]

I bought a Acer H340 last week.

http://us.acer.com/acer/prod...4579

It looks nice. I preferred the HP MediaSmart Server look better, but that thing was at least $150 more, and not really much better hardware wise. The Acer H340 is built on Windows Home Server and run on an Atom 230, which is pretty weak, but good enough for WHS. It came with 2GB of RAM and a 1TB Western Digital Caviar. The HP MediaSmart has a much better processor in comparison, a 2.2Ghz Celeron.

WHS took me a long ass time to setup and upload everything. I've had my 2TB WDC for awhile and it probably had about 1.2TB of stuff on it. My anime folder was 900GB+ lol. When you add a harddrive to the pool, it gets formatted. So I had to copy off all the files to various other harddrives first, then add the 2TB harddrive to the pool, and then move the files back. I didn't have a gigabit router yet, so it took a painfully long time. The OS also came with no updates whatsoever. I probably spent a good day or two just updating the OS. It's fun for me so no biggie. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.
I just bought a new router today.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=517276&t=2083686

Asus RT-N16 Gigabit Wireless N Router + NETGEAR USB Wireless N Adapter (Recertified) + Rosewill 2.4 GHz Indoor Omni-Directional Antenna Extender $81
Pretty good deal IMO. Now I just got to eBay my D-Link DIR-625 or something.



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