A thought on windows home server

I was thinking for awhile now that windows home server would have been much more suitable if it had been implemented with Windows CE and run on a low powered discrete hardware. hopefully not using a whole lot more power than a router maybe. I feel like the current windows home server uses far too much power for the average person to justify leaving one turned on 24 7, not to mention the environmental concerns of encouraging people to own products like that. But something low power and discrete could handle all the jobs most people would want a home server for. handling backups, syncing photos and other files to cloud over/night, downloading torrents or other large files over night, acting as a file/media server for local network and online and so on. now that Microsoft have announced windows for ARM, it sounds pretty easy to put the current windows home server on lower powered arm computers. I can't remember the specifics of how home server plugins were written, but i gather a lot of them are pure .net, so could supposedly run without modification on WHS ARM. at this stage i don't know how much of a future WHS has, given the screw up with way it now handles external hardrives. But i feel using low power arm computers instead of trying to slap it on a standard x86 set-up would make the whole concept of a home server much more feasible for most people. what do ya'll think?

I have two Windows Home Servers. It wouldn't surprise me if the hard drivers consumed more power than the minuscule CPU that runs these things. These servers really don't do a lot of processor intensive work.

-Josh

CE would be all wrong imo.  Besides with the announcement this week, I wouldn't be surprised if the followup release to v2 WHS will be able to run on ARM.  Personally, I have no problem keeping my current server running 24x7.  I run IPPBX software for our home&business, stream video and do a bunch of other things as well.  Looking forward to Vail release.

CE would be all wrong imo.  Besides with the announcement this week, I wouldn't be surprised if the followup release to v2 WHS will be able to run on ARM.  Personally, I have no problem keeping my current server running 24x7.  I run IPPBX software for our home&business, stream video and do a bunch of other things as well.  Looking forward to Vail release.

CE would be all wrong imo.  Besides with the announcement this week, I wouldn't be surprised if the followup release to v2 WHS will be able to run on ARM.  Personally, I have no problem keeping my current server running 24x7.  I run IPPBX software for our home&business, stream video and do a bunch of other things as well.  Looking forward to Vail release.

My apologies for the dups.  The server response was slow and I clicked on the submit button while waiting.

9 hours ago, USArcher wrote

... Looking forward to Vail release.

Really looking forward to a release without one of the main features of HomeServer. Removing the drive extender sucks.

I really don't want to get another DE thread going. However, is there anything like DE in Windows Storage Server?

-Josh

4 minutes ago, JoshRoss wrote

I really don't want to get another DE thread going. However, is there anything like DE in Windows Storage Server?

-Josh

Nah.

WSS is similar to Windows Web Server in that it's a subset of the full WS functionality for a specialist application (not strictly true, but that's the general idea). It's really meant for large-scale enterprise storage where disks are managed by a dedicated hardware storage system (like a Dell PowerVault) where physical disks are managed by embedded hardware separate from the OS.