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WHS: Should You Use It?

I’ve used the Windows Home Server RC1 release for the past few weeks, and it’s pretty good, coming from Microsoft. But as with all too many Microsoft products these days, I think it’s a great idea that has been brought out of the oven half-baked.

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Windows Vista: Fucking with Windows Home Server?

Well, I wanted to see what Windows Home Server was like, and also took the opportunity to test whether or not my Vista desktop got faster network speeds reading from a WHS server as opposed to a Linux Samba server. Now as I said in my last post, read speeds were about 5-6Mb/s when copying from my Samba server to a Vista client. Surely I thought Microsoft’s own server OS would absolutely trample Samba in the mud.

Anyone want to take a guess at the speeds I got between my WHS test box and Vista? Same configuration, gigabit network all round, etc…. Continue reading ‘Windows Vista: Fucking with Windows Home Server?’