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- DS1515+, DX213.
Anyone else using other solutions for their home networking or back-up needs? Other than a Synology NAS, I mean.
I'm still using a Windows Home Server (version 1). Built using old PC parts that I had lying about.
WHS is a simplified version of Windows Server 2003, looking very familiar to XP users.
I have it on my home network, where it does daily back-ups of all my Windows machines. It has no WAN access. We only use Windows 7 machines ( I hate 10 and won't have it). I also have a couple of XP machines, for retro-gaming. The little WHS performs perfectly for the back-up roll that it's tasked with.
It creates, system images of your machines, which you can restore using a bootable cd.
In my opinion, it's one of the best things M$ ever came up with. They did a second version, in 2011. However, they removed the drive pool functionality and thus the very thing that helped make it so good, the dummies!
I'm still using a Windows Home Server (version 1). Built using old PC parts that I had lying about.
WHS is a simplified version of Windows Server 2003, looking very familiar to XP users.
I have it on my home network, where it does daily back-ups of all my Windows machines. It has no WAN access. We only use Windows 7 machines ( I hate 10 and won't have it). I also have a couple of XP machines, for retro-gaming. The little WHS performs perfectly for the back-up roll that it's tasked with.
It creates, system images of your machines, which you can restore using a bootable cd.
In my opinion, it's one of the best things M$ ever came up with. They did a second version, in 2011. However, they removed the drive pool functionality and thus the very thing that helped make it so good, the dummies!