Gavin Greenwalt
01-15-2007, 03:12 PM
I know most of us already have a real network with something like Windows 2003 Server. But for those who are starting a small one or two man operations I just saw this announcement from CES.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070108-8573.html
It's Microsoft's new Windows Home Server. It's a network appliance which allows you to run any windows application and it also has a few little tricks of its own for a few hundred dollars.
Most importantly, for all of you who intend to run a local RAID 0 array on your workstation, the WMS has intelligent backup and recovery tools. Something which should be pretty much mandatory if you aren't running a redundant array.
This could also handle some pretty creative solutions with a little extra code such as automatically sharing a password protected client folder online.
I also really like the auto-ingest storage feature wich allows you to just hook up piece meal every old drive you have in any fashion you can connect and it'll treat it like a redundant array. Nifty.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070108-8573.html
It's Microsoft's new Windows Home Server. It's a network appliance which allows you to run any windows application and it also has a few little tricks of its own for a few hundred dollars.
Most importantly, for all of you who intend to run a local RAID 0 array on your workstation, the WMS has intelligent backup and recovery tools. Something which should be pretty much mandatory if you aren't running a redundant array.
This could also handle some pretty creative solutions with a little extra code such as automatically sharing a password protected client folder online.
I also really like the auto-ingest storage feature wich allows you to just hook up piece meal every old drive you have in any fashion you can connect and it'll treat it like a redundant array. Nifty.