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    Image of ara ara
    10/08/09

    In reply to How to Build Your Very Own Badass Windows Home Server
    There is one thing I'd like to add to that article. USE RAID. Just RAID the HDDs before you install. WHS file duplication is slow as hell, it's duct tape grade solution for redundancy. After setting WHS on a RAID I've been rather pleased to it, before it was plain ridiculous.
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    10/08/09

    @ara: What level of raid?
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    Image of ara ara
    10/08/09

    @runemail: Using RAID is certainly not the way Microsoft envisioned WHS to be used, but they dropped the ball with the file duplicator so it's the way to get performance out of WHS macine. And yes, you loose the ability to easily swap drives, if all you want is "tape-like" slow backup storage, native WHS might work for you, but if you want to actively use it, like I do, it just won't cut it. Using Windows Server 2008 looses easy backup, media sharing, user managing, web access and multiplies the price, not really what I'm looking for... But most of all it drowns you into the bizarre world of user and device CAL licences, and other madness only enterprise sysadmins should have to deal with.

    @Mozoltov, motherfucker: Whatever gives you the redundancy you are looking for, I personally had pile of 1TB drives to waste so I went for 1+0 with hot spare. In the article they used two 2TB drives so RAID 1 would match what WHS gives you, with better performance or course.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10/08/09

    In reply to How to Build Your Very Own Badass Windows Home Server
    Windows Home Server sucks because it's not a Macintosh! There I said it.

    Windows sucks because it's Windows.
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    10/08/09


    @OMG! Ponies!:
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    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: How do I do this for mac? I have three external HDs I would like to access wirelessly?
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    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Macintosh? is that what Mac is short for? Who knew!
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    10/08/09

    @SEDAGIVE?!: Isn't a Macintosh a type of Apple? I prefer Granny Smith
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Let's not hold back people. Let the flame war commence.
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    10/08/09

    @Seriously_now...: You can't do it on a Mac, Macs don't support HDDs.
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    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: How DID this guy get a star, anyway?
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    Image of PhyrePhox PhyrePhox
    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Maybe there is a snap-in to allow compatibility with Time Machine...oh, wait, the universe would implode if that happened, starting with Steve Ballmer's head...
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    10/08/09

    @Seriously_now...: just plug them into it,whs can do timecapsule backups.
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    10/08/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: : You like Super Cougars, huh?
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    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: HA HA HA. Now really, young man, adults are talking...
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    10/08/09

    @USB_Humping_Dog: What's not to like? You don't have to worry about pressure to stay the night, because the orderlies will get pissed if they catch you.
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    Image of nat lyon nat lyon
    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: see what you did (and in usual predictable manner it didn't take much).
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    10/08/09

    @PhyrePhox: Uh, HP's WHS boxes are Time Machine compatible.
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    Image of fastm3driver fastm3driver
    10/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Since a Mac can't do this and Apple has nothing as good as WHS I would say admitting you have a problem is the first step.
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    Image of Brazell Brazell
    10/08/09

    @PhyrePhox: The HP home server interfaces with Time Machine using some software that HP builds into it. Hopefully it's just a matter of time before there's a plugin that replicates that.
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    10/08/09

    @TuxBobble: Isn't it obvious? By emulating the Giz staff. At this rate he will soon be a guest editor.
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    10/08/09

    @SEDAGIVE?!: Macs only support one-button HDDs.
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    10/08/09

    @fastm3driver: Mac's don't need backups since...(choose your answer)
    iFanboy: Mac's are so reliable that you don't ever loose data.
    iHater: No one ever does anything useful or important on a Mac so there is no reason to back them up.
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    03/31/09

    In reply to HP's MediaSmart Server LX195 Leaked, Is a More Compact Windows Home Server
    Hello Pr0nSmart Mini Server!


    But on a more serious note, do we even know how many drive bays it has?

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/31/09

    In reply to HP's MediaSmart Server LX195 Leaked, Is a More Compact Windows Home Server
    What exactly makes this thing likely not Mac-compatible?
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    03/31/09

    @Kaiser 'Overlord' Machead: The current HP Windows Home Server is not compatible with Mac.
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    03/31/09

    @CaptainSquishy: Oh, well then that makes sense *face palm*


    I gathered the other was, since it said OS X Time Machine compatible, or is it just limited to that function alone?

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