DISQUS

Connected Internet: Windows Home Server Review

  • Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago
    Now that's comprehensive. Far more entertaining and informative than what I get at pcmag.com
  • Serg V · 2 years ago
    Microsoft usual offering not bad system for home use. UNIX system is more reliable, but Windows easy for setup and not required a lot of time
  • Terry Walsh · 2 years ago
    You can find a full list of WHS Add-ins at http://www.wegotserved.co.uk

    Cheers
    Terry
  • Jalaj · 2 years ago

    (WHS itself only takes up about 20GB)


    Is that a typo... 20GB ?
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    @Jalaj

    The installation of WHS uses up 20GB - you can see my storage breakdown in bottom right of the first screenhot - http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/wp-content/u...
  • Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago
    Considering that many PCs ship with 40GB by default, this 20GB screams "Im bloatware"

    Sigh. It's like software vendors and hardware vendors are in cahoots to make us spend on bigger, faster and nastier upgrades
  • Jez · 2 years ago
    waiting for my $5 120 day trial disk now! this 'should' hopefully solve most of my issues! Hope there is a good community for addins..
  • fenix · 2 years ago
    Yeah, WHS is one of the best recent MS releases, especially after the mixed reaction to Vista. The close collaboration of MS with third party vendors means that those programs ought to work right out of the box and integrate nicely into WHS. For eg, Diskeeper, and excellent defragmenter in it's own right snaps right into the WHS console, and makes defragging very easy and painless. Overall, an excellent effort by MS and I hope this carries over to Vienna/7/whatever the next version of Windows is called.
  • WHS is Slow · 2 years ago
    WHS speeds can drop to as bad as between 1Mbits/s to 7Mbits/s which as you can imagine may disappoint you heavily especially if your on a 1 Gigabit network!

    Source: on10.net/Blogs/EnglishBloke/how-can-i-speed-up-my-windows-home-server-file-copies
  • idlorj · 2 years ago
    The system drive is a 20GB partition. On my WHS I have 14.9GB free out of the 20.
  • TN · 1 year ago
    Where in the world can you buy a PC that ships default with a 40gb hard drive? I didn't even know they made those anymore...
  • MichaelQ · 1 year ago
    Perhaps this may be a silly question, but:

    Can you put a Mac on a WHS network? Would you get all the advantages? (i.e. shared folders, streaming, back up [with Time Machine], etc?

    How would you set this up?

    Thanks for any help!
  • Everton · 1 year ago
    @MichaelQ

    The Mac will be able to see all the shared folders as they are just network shares so yes. Backup works as you can backup the Mac to one of the shares. Also streaming as it's based on UPnP