Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (OEM) + $10 Newegg Gift Card $40 + Free Shipping (expired)

Quote from burticus : This is like the regular price for WHS 2011 now. It is on sale all the time. But no drive extender - no buy for me.

Purchased with great reluctance. But have to disagree as this is the cheapest it's been for me (Newegg credit = cash for me, TD charges me tax)

Quote from mpodval : Is that better than running Fedora w/ Amahi?

Not sure if it's better than Fedora but there is no point spending any money on a server os when linux will do fine. Just read the wiki pages on their website while setting it up and you'll be fine

anybody know how long it takes to get the $10 gift card? I assume its just a code or applied to my account but there are other purchases I would use it on today if I got it that quickly...

newbie questions:
1) can i upgrade my vista home basic to this?
2) if so, what do I gain from upgrading from vista home basic to this?

Thanks a lot!

Quote from mpodval : Do I already need to have Windows installed on the machine before installing WHS? Or can it be placed on a new build? Thanks...makes sense...how do you guys get around the missing drive extender issue?

Drive Extender was nice and easy, but I've had no issues using software RAID volumes with Windows 2008 R2. It takes a bit of knowledge to set it up, but hey, learning is fun! I've been able to boost performance by having multiple partitions with different NTFS block sizes. I use 4KB for docs and such, and 64KB for video files or VHDs (which I access using iSCSI via Starwind for Hyper-V, etc.).

Window Server "8" will have Drive Pooling, which sounds to be enterprise-ready (read: stable). Perhaps a Technet subscription to acquire WS8 when it becomes available (Q4-ish) instead of waiting for the next version of WHS.

Great price.
I am looking for prebuilt hardware with WHS 2011 already installed.
I bought 4 of those HP MediaSmart Servers for $100 when they closed them out and they are AWESOME.
Wouldn't mind spending $300-$400 on similar hardware but with WHS 2011. I don't want to deal with building a system and installing this and what not.

Would this be beneficial to me?
I have 3 cpus, 1 for basic computer stuff, the others for HTPC. Also ps3 and xbox
So far I just have it setup for everything to share through my main PC and all seems to work fine, except for some streaming HD which I think is more of a network issue.

Quote from nappyloxs : Would this be beneficial to me? I have 3 cpus, 1 for basic computer stuff, the others for HTPC. Also ps3 and xbox So far I just have it setup for everything to share through my main PC and all seems to work fine, except for some streaming HD which I think is more of a network issue.

I use mine for backup purposes only. It backs up all my pcs daily. You set it up once and you forget it. It is awesome.

Windows Home Server + Media Center = Something I want one one PC!

this is much better than TD deal

This thread is comedy.

Has anyone used Windows home server? How good is it in terms of file security?

This thread wreaks of n00bs and IT guys that got their degrees in the 80's.

WHS w/o Extender = Tragedy. And yes, I believe MS will EOL the product with the 2011 release.

Quote from mpodval : Is that better than running Fedora w/ Amahi?

Debian is easier to use than Fedora IMO. Debian is also considered to be the most stable distro of Linux, mainly because they use older packages (with the latest updates).

Debian tends to be most Unix-like, and other distro's like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. are all based off Debian.

I will state that I've never experienced Fedora via the command like, I tend to just stick with the three distros that I mentioned. I have tried Fedora using like Gnome, but nothing jumped out at me making me want to switch.