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With WHS you can stream movies to other devices such as a roku box ( for a small one time fee) or I can to my Dish receiver, it is fun to bore people with vacation pics on a 65" tv :)
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WHS is great for these cases:
- Network wide home backups with de-duplication, mounting of any backup set as a network drive for individual file restore, or entire bare-metal restore in the event...
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Local network. I mainly want drive pooling to get rid of all my storage drives in individual computers and place them on a centralized server as a single virtual drive.
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WHS is nice because it gives you some extra features, but it costs money. You could do this with a FreeNAS solution, something linux based, or a normal copy of windows and just share...
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WHS, OMV, FreeNAS are the main contenders here. WHS is definitely the least hassle, then probably FreeNAS, then probably OMV.
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I think File Sharing would cover it. However, you'll want an online backup solution or some backup solution that runs regularly to make sure you don't lose all of your stuff due to a catastrophic...
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You're right. After looking into it some more, I think I'm just gonna go with WHS 2011 and flexraid.
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Soooo is this hosting supposed to be local across your network or public facing on the internet?
If local network only, why not just use the File and Printer Sharing features of Windows to set up...
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http://techland.time.com/2012/06/25/pogoplug-review-the-ups-and-downs-of-diy-cloud-storage/
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7153/1
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WHS 2011 does NOT have Drive Extender.
I bought WHS a few months ago and am considering switching to just a simple Linux server. WHS doesn't have Media Center so in order to play files that are...
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I wanted to setup a server/host to share all of my media files and pictures. WHS 2011 sounds interesting because of the drive extender feature. Just wondering if others have already gone this route...
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Ditto file sharing.... home server sounds "nice" but in reality just doing sharing works and saves energy. I can stream to XBox or my sony SNP player or other computers. No need for a server.
