Seems kind of like a dream, a dream come true that there would be a 1TB hard drive for under 100 USD. At the very least, I’m thinking my file server is going to have close to about 6 to 7 TBs of storage, easily. It also allows me to buy a motherboard with less SATA slots, as I won’t need them to have a lot of storage.
The nice part is that Windows Home Server already has RAID capabilities in it, so I won’t need to have a motherboard with RAID 5. I do think that by the time I pay off enough of my debt to afford it, Windows Home Server 2 or one that uses the Windows 2008 code base will be available. Well, actually, Windows 7 Server might be out by then too, so I’ll have to see what the personal server edition has.
I’m looking at 2010 or 2011 before I’ll be able to afford to build another machine and I plan on it being a file server. I figure that I won’t need to upgrade it as often, since all it will be doing is storing and serving files. I won’t actually be using it day to day, so unless a hard drive fails on it, I probably won’t notice it.
It does slightly change my direction on my current machines. It will soon become almost impossible to find a hard drive that doesn’t have a lot of space. That is good I think or it will be good in the case of a PVR. I will have to assess the whole developer machine and gaming machine. It might be better to just use a quality laptop, but I also want to build a PVR or two, and file server.
Technology is constantly improving, so the media servers that are okay today, should be kick ass in another year or two. So waiting isn’t such a bad thing. I do however have to hold off until my debt is manageable again.
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