Posted: 2/25/2011 4:12:47 AM EDT
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Can someone school me on this OS? If I read it correctly it only supports 4GB of ram. WTF. Do I even need lots of ram in a home server? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778%28VS.85%29.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_home_server |
| windows home server is a hacked down version of server 2008. there are some limitations like, there is no key board/mouse/monitir everything is done through a wep page. you cannot be part of a domain and so on. to be honest other than having a central backup solution for you puters in your house, i would say if you have a old box in your house and a copy of xp you can do pretty much the same thing as home server. |
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Quoted: If you need more than 4GB of RAM to do what you are doing, then MS is going to steer you toward an Enterprise solution. You'll have outgrown the intended role of Home Server. I dont even know how much I will need. I would store music and videos on my server but I dont think I would install applications because I dont understand how they would run off ther server and my own comp. |
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+1 on Linux
Fedora Core, Ubuntu, or another distro. Lightweight and will literally run years without crashing. Using FC14 to run my own file server and media server... Runs ushare, ps3 media server, sabnzbd, sickbeard, httpd, sshd, samba, squid, and has 6TB of local 5400rpm drives. Very handy for secure browsing when you're at an untrusted wifi location. Just ssh back home, and pipe all your http/https traffic through the ssh tunnel to your proxy at home. EDIT: *Everything* should be 64bit and support over 4gb of RAM these days. Memory & hardware is too cheap to accept anything less. |
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I'm running Ubuntu on a little mini-itx dual-core Atom board for my home server. It has 3x 1TB hard drives in Raid 5 (its a few years old now) I use it as my download box (bittorrents & general downloads) Both programs have a webUI which means I can just browse to it from another computer, copy and paste either the torrent file or download links, and it goes from there. Using jdownloader as the file downloader, it even auto-extracts everything too. Also running apache so I could move the webUI's from their random ports to an address like www.herpderp.com/downloadcrap so I can check on the status when away from home. |
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i run windows sever 2008 r2 (64 bit) on a laptop (not enterprise). as an aside, on that laptop i run hyper v and have 3 virtual machines, 2 of which are windows server 2008 r2 (64) enterprise.... on a 2 gig laptop (laptop only has 2 gigs of memory)
on my main work computer i have 8 gigs, but i work mostly in windows server 2008 32 sp2 (not enterprise). i limit the amount of memory that it uses to a bit less than 4 gigs with some settings. develop on this machine. for instance, i have Oracle 11g enterprise 32 bit for windows 32, sql server 2008 enterprise, a web server, visual studio team architect 2010, visual studio 2008 team archtect. I can boot into windows 2008 r2 64 bit and use all 8 gigs. I run hyper-v on the 64 bit system and run several vms when developing. the point im making here is i spend a good bit of time developing server apps in a system using less that 4 gigs of memory. as an aside, a relative just bought a laptop windows 7 64 bit (home version i think) and it has 8 gigs, which i suspect she doesnt need, but memory is cheap. the 32 bit OSes dont use more than 4 gigs regardless. there are exceptions to this but it isnt worth talking about. you would be fine with 4 gigs max. |
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Quoted: Quoted: If you need more than 4GB of RAM to do what you are doing, then MS is going to steer you toward an Enterprise solution. You'll have outgrown the intended role of Home Server. I dont even know how much I will need. I would store music and videos on my server but I dont think I would install applications because I dont understand how they would run off ther server and my own comp. WHS really does not need much RAM as you will not really load much apps on it. I am about ready to get one from newegg: Just waiting on it to go back to 350 like it does every few weeks. Yeah it is an Acer, but I really like the size. Also I already have my SATA drives ready to put in it. At work all I do it mess around with Windows 2008 and VMWare....HyperV Blows, or it is the 9mm of virtualization  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: If you need more than 4GB of RAM to do what you are doing, then MS is going to steer you toward an Enterprise solution. You'll have outgrown the intended role of Home Server. I dont even know how much I will need. I would store music and videos on my server but I dont think I would install applications because I dont understand how they would run off ther server and my own comp. WHS really does not need much RAM as you will not really load much apps on it. I am about ready to get one from newegg: Just waiting on it to go back to 350 like it does every few weeks. Yeah it is an Acer, but I really like the size. Also I already have my SATA drives ready to put in it. At work all I do it mess around with Windows 2008 and VMWare....HyperV Blows, or it is the 9mm of virtualization So I guess 2GB would be enough. I will probably get 4GB because that is the defacto amount today. |
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Quoted: You read that correct. Supports up to 4GB. Do you need 4GB of RAM? Depends on what you're gonna use it for. If all you want is a place to share/store files, you will probably be ok. If you're serving up applications, I would say no. If you are serving applications then you probably don't want that OS in the first place. |
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Go Here. Download the trial version and try out WHS before you buy it. They recently released a new beta for an upcoming upgrade......... |
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Or you could just go here and get the 6 month trial version of full blown 2008 R2. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee175713.aspx |