Wendell,
I was thinking about the Home Sever because our main tower is getting a bit long in the tooth. It was big and strong back when I built it in May of 2003, but now.... So I was thinking about taking the client's traffic off of it with some form of NAS so things don't slow down here too much if I'm in the back with 3-4 apps open on this old tower. So the idea of like $750 for a baby server, with multiple drives, set-up in some form of RAID, like RAID 1 for saftey seemed appealing. All without having to buy lots of MS cals and licenses, nor would I have another learning curve while I learned real server based stuff. The HP home server thing is actually cheaper than the Netgear NAS that seems to be the top of it's heap right now.
But the MS website is less than specific about things, with no screen shots or anything. Also I'm concerned and now there are hints on the MS website that perhaps such things do need their own form of internet security and virus protection, yet there are no vendors who have designed any yet, no less do any of us know how good or bad they perform if they were there. I want to know more about how I will interface with and run this puppy. I know it's browser based, but how easy or good is it? Can you add a monitor and keyboard to it and work it more directly for better direct access to it? Will it allow me to solve my multiple in from the outside issue much like a real server? The specs really aren't there when you try and look.
Anyway, I'd love to hear more about your experience with it if you have anything interesting to share. Thanks much.
Paul
