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Current Recommendations For a Home File Server?

Posted by timothy on from the must-hold-stuff-must-dish-stuff dept.

j.sanchez1 writes "The recent coverage of Shuttle's new KPC has gotten me thinking (again) about a small, low-cost headless file server for home. In the past, I have looked at the iPaq and considered using older computers I have lying around, but for various reasons I have never jumped in to do it. Do you guys have any suggestions on what to use for a home file server (hardware and software)? The server would be feeding files to Windows PCs and connected to the network through a Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT firmware." There are a host of good options these days; what has the best bang for the home-user's buck?

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  1. Re:Windows Home Server by JCSoRocks · · Score: 1, Troll
    RTFA. I've researched this issue a lot as an owner of a WHS box. From Microsoft's KB -

    You can still use the Windows Home Server home computer backup to back up and restore files from and to your home computers.
    It doesn't corrupt your backups. Those are fine. The issue only occurs when the machine is under a high load and you save a file to a shared folder on the WHS using one of a handful of applications. It's easy to avoid and they're working on a fix - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946676/en-us?spid=12624.

    But you know, feel free to ignore the facts and resume your mindless fear mongering. You should run for President!
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  2. Re:Windows Home Server by JCSoRocks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ugh. Windows Home Server is basically Windows Server 2003... not XP.

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