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At the same time, it’s a sad reflection at Microsoft’s total failure to produce a server product for the home, because everything that was cool for a non-techie about WHS 2007 is gone.
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Windows Home Server 2011 seems like a fairly solid experience so far, and it addresses some of the performance issues that WHS 2007 systems seemed to eventually run into. This was not one of those screwless, everything-slides-into-place cases that I’d become accustomed to.
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So it was a bit of a shock to have to figure out which holes the mounting screws needed to go into to fasten the motherboard in place, or to try and make sure I got the right polarity when plugging LEDs into headers on the motherboard so they’d actually light up. I stopped building PCs from scratch 13 years ago, when pre-packed systems from Dell started to simply be more cost effective than anything you could build yourself.
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Newegg did a good job of getting things to me immediately, even though my failure to type in a coupon code on their product page probably cost me $20 :). The core system seemed like a pretty good deal, though I didn’t wait for deals – I just bought what was available the day the old machine died. So it was $630 total for a new system with 4.5TB of storage, enough processor/memory to hopefully act as a good media server even if some transcoding is involved. 2 x Hitachi 2TB disk drives for primary media storage, $130 each for a total of $260.AMD FX-6100 6-core processor, Biostar A880GZ motherboard, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Seagate 500GB HDD, and a generic 500W case on special for $320.
So, I decided to take the plunge, and build a completely new home server that’s now up and running.
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But a total lack of interest in Windows 8, and acceptable performance from my current PC even 2.5 years in, and an upgrade didn’t seem imminent. It would have been a temporary solution, but it might have kept things going until a new Windows release triggered a familiar cycle: my old PC becomes Valerie’s new PC, and Valerie’s old PC (my old old PC) becomes the home server. I considered trying to find a power supply and/or motherboard replacement, but I would have needed to find a setup that supported the old Parallel ATA drives I had in that machine. Or perhaps it was the copious amounts of sawdust that came from a construction project conducted right next to the home server (no, I wasn’t around, but I did notice a beloved old mechanical keyboard I kept around was completely covered in sawdust, so…). Unfortunately, the 8-year-old Dell desktop that I’d been running the home server on finally died. I’ve previously described the approach I use to backups in a nutshell, I use Windows Home Server (2007) to back up our home PCs and store media content on an old PC with redundant storage, and I back up important things to the cloud (with SmugMug hosting the content that’s most important to me, my photos).