My shameless begging for a copy of Windows Home Server has finally paid off and I’m in the process of installing it as I write this post. I knew that somebody would eventually send me a copy!
Over the last couple of days I’ve discovered some problems with my NASLite installation that has made me decide it’s time to move on and build a more advanced Home Server using Windows Home Server:
- Limited extension and upgrade capabilities
- Slow transfer speeds
- Complicated RAS configuration
I can live with #2 but #1 is the one that concerns me the most. Although NASLite is a very good NAS platform, that’s literally all it can do. This is why I’ve found it hard to to setup RAS as it’s not designed to do this. I’ve decided it’s time to move on before I get too attached to NASlite, especially as it’s now holding all of my files, as I have no idea how easy it will be to upgrade in the future.
Moving to Windows Home Server fully is going to take me a while as I have to transfer all the files off my NASLite installation onto a second PC, and then back onto the Windows Home Server box. So far I’ve wiped one HDD so that I can install WHS, and I’ll have to keep switching HDDs in order to boot the different OSs in order to move files back and forth.
So far the installation of WHS is going well (3o mins to go) – I’ll let you know how I get on when it’s all up and running.
