Tim Higgins
If you’ve built your own RAID 5 NAS, post a comment, or send an email to [email protected] and tell me the components you used, how much it cost and why you did it instead of buying an off-the-shelf NAS. If you’ve got pictures, send ’em in, too.
If I get enough responses, I’ll pull the best ones into an article. Thanks!
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In his CES keynote, Bill Gates introduced the Microsoft Home Server, but didn't provide many details. Thankfully, George Ou is also at CES and did a good drilldown with the Microsofties and spills some of the beans behind what makes the product tick.
The short story is that it is based on Windows Server 2003 R2 and has a "rich" admin GUI delivered to a Windows desktop and a not-so-fancy one for the riff-raff who choose to run another OS. Windows Server 2003 also powers some of Iomega's StorCenter Pro series NASes and they ain't cheap. And when Jim Buzbee looked at the StorCenter Pro NAS 200d/320GB with REV built-in, he found that some admin functions required dropping into Windows Remote Desktop.
