[s-cars] NAC: hard drive crash

[Taka Mizutani]

Matt-
While everyone hates MS, I have not had any issues with SBS2003, other than
that
their backup utility sucks (I had a HD failure, the backup did not restore
properly, that
sucked). Weird thing was, the data was readable off of the failed HD, but it
would not
boot off of that HD. So I had to pull the data off the HD, manually copy it
to the new HD
and do a full reinstall, which took the better part of a day to fix this
disaster.

So what do you recommend for a home storage server? I'm not dropping big
bucks on this
box, that takes away from my toy fund (I've spent enough on computers). I
really don't want
to run Linux or anything really odd- I like having a GUI and I don't want to
be searching for drivers.

What I have is pretty vanilla, but I'm still thinking about getting a
hardware RAID card simply
because the throughput is incredibly fast. Even with SATA RAID w/o going to
SCSI or SAS.

On the same note, if you have a better suggestion than my current install of
SBS2003 for my
work server, I'm all ears. I have a domain w/ 5 workstations and I need to
run Quickbooks Enterprise
with the server program running on the server. I think that limits me to
Windows.

Taka


On 4/3/07, matt ludwig. <urs6avant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i know this could spiral a bit here w/ these comments, but why-o'-
> farking-why would anyone want to jump on the wagon of M$ Windows Home
> Server..... in a beta release!!???!? that is such a hunch of #$%^& OS
> it is not even funny. Taka- there are so many better/more reliable/
> confident (i mean all of those in both the quantitative and
> qualitative sense) than that OS. Please look beyond the M$
> demon.... :) I know you were just inquiring on it and did not say you
> were going to get it, but i had to say something...... for nothing
> more than my ease to sleep tonight. : )
>