Have this at home:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx
Got a laptop [ have 5 workstations for the 2 of us at home
].
Was seeing running out of space on the hd on my laptop 50 gigs of 70 used. The other 10 gigs was the Recovery partition on a 80-gig hd.
Got a 500 gigabyte SATA drive for $69.00 at the local Micro Center store today for the laptop.
Swapped them out - the hard drives - was easy with a Phillips screw driver.
The idea of converting my laptop from 80-gig of hard drive to a 500 gigabyte hard drive was a walk in the park thanks to MS Windows Home Server.
Stuck in the WHS Restore CD, restored to the new hd, rebooted, 10% used - 90% free space after the change.
Total time = 1 hour and 20 minutes.
The SAME box has my website on it [FREE]
http://learnabit.net
via domain name forwarding ... cost $10 bucks a year,
and
for FREE I share ALL my pictures for the same PC box:
http://learnabit.homeserver.com/mikephotos
OVER and out.
Look into to it. Might save you a ton of time and headaches.
Ogh, and the other 4 machines backed up EVERY day have the same feature of ... it gets wiped out ... stick the restore CD in and it [the machine] is back to what it was as of midnight today.
Finally, I am using 2 of 3 terabytes of storage. Biggest use ... movies ... dropped cable subscription. Want a movie? fire it up from the Home server watch it on any TV in the house.
When I get concerned about server storage space , I buy another 1-terabyte USB drive, stick it in, it asks "storage" or "backup". I say storage and grow another terabye of storage in 45-60 seconds of time.