Free Home Server ...

re: Free Home Server ...

wwahammy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:25:21 GMT

This is off topic but has anyone on the Home Server team seen the work that Sun's doing with ZFS? ZFS has many (but not all) of the Home Server functions. From what I can tell, ZFS should be faster in pooling than Home Server/NTFS. Does anyone on the Home Server team have any thoughts on ZFS, performance, etc?

re: Free Home Server ...

sdanelson — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:39:39 GMT

I currently have a desktop that I am looking to use as a file server/backup server/media server etc. I have heard a lot of great things about Home Server from a variety of sources, but I have never had a chance to see the bits in action. So my first thought was to go download the trial version off of the web.... But to my utter astonishment the only way to get a trial from Microsoft is to actually order a physical cd kit which says to expect it in 1 to 3 weeks. It blows my mind. I don't mind paying a $100 dollars, but I just wanted to mess with the bits and kick the tires before I bought it. Please for all of us geeks out here make a trial version available as a download.

re: Free Home Server ... off topic question - unsure where to post

tschmidt79 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:32:00 GMT

I wasn't sure where I could ask this since the more relavent posts were disabled. I have a home server and love it! One question I have is what happens to data when a drive has an unrecoverable bit read error. If i have it duplicated does WHS try to read that file? I ask because I am trying to lay cause to what happened when I transferred my files to my larger WHS. There were several files that had errors and were lost, these weren't duplicated btw. all the ones that had duplicated have not had any issues with so far (it is still copying)

I ask this question to better understand the effectiveness of WHS as a redundant-reliable storage system and if i need to invest in an additional backuop method. Thanks!