I beta tested Microsoft's Windows Home Server. My release candidate copy from the beta ran out December 15th, and I am just now getting ready to install the 120 Day evaluation. I would buy the final product, but I thought I would give the eval a shot and make sure the final product lives up to what I expect from it.
My Setup:
Intel P4 2.4Ghz Processor
2.5GB RAM
4 x 250GB Western Digital Hard Drive
This was a Quantum/Adaptec SnapServer. I disabled the hardware watchdog monitor*. I booted from a USB DVD drive to install Windows Home Server.
* For those who do not know, a hardware watchdog is a circuit on the motherboard that waits for a driver to be load and respond every few seconds to say the server is working properly. If the driver does not load it will auto-reboot. Under normal operations on this SnapServer the Linux-based OS would load that driver, normally it is in case the server HANGS and does not respond, it will reboot itself. Easily disabled in the BIOS. And the snap server is 1U rack mountable for neat basement setup.
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