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Recommended Hardware Specs Released For Windows Home Server

By on February 12, 2007 in Hardware, Windows Home Server

Further to my blog over the weekend on building your own Home Server, the Windows Home Server team have now released the recommended hardware specs for running Beta 2. CPU: 1GHz Pentium 3 or better RAM: 512MB minimum Hard Drive:1 Hard Drive 80GB internal (IDE, ATA, SATA, or SCSI) DVD drive that is bootable Monitor [...]

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Building Your Windows Home Server – Revisited

By on February 12, 2007 in Hardware, Windows Home Server

A couple of additional points to be aware of when building Windows Home Server machine. 1. Check that heatsink! If you find that your server is running really hot (you’ll know this from either a smart application like Asus’ PC Probe II which gives you temperature readings) or most likely, because the fans are on [...]

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How to Build Your New Home Server

By on February 11, 2007 in Hardware, Windows Home Server

Before taking a look at the Windows Home Server software, you need to sort out some hardware to install it on! Later in the year, WHS will come ready-installed on dedicated hardware, supplied by the likes of HP, Dell and other OEMs. But that’s later in the year! So, I thought I’d have a go [...]

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Choosing Home Server Hardware

By on February 9, 2007 in Hardware, Windows Home Server

I spent time on Wednesday evening picking out components for my future home server. When it’s released later in the year, some of the major OEMs will be releasing what looks like very cool hardware developed specifically for Windows Home Server, but I thought it would be fun to build my own. I’ve not built a [...]

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