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Buy cheap or build for long term?
Buy cheap or build for long term?
- Really, my question is somewhat larger. I am torn between buying a cheap "1st system" just to give the WHS a try and builing a slightly more expensive, but more permanent unit. The cheap build I'm looking at is as follows:
1st option (used machine purchased locally):
AMD Sempron 2600+. Mobo has 4 SATA, 2 IDE (RAID, but plan to disable in BIOS)
1.25 GB Ram
Western Digital Caviar Green WD7500AADS 750GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (new drive purchased from NewEgg)
System costs $200 CDN
2nd option is to build a system from NewEgg
Rosewill R102-P-BK 120mm Fan MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Western Digital Caviar Green WD7500AADS 750GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive
Rosewill RG430-2 430W 80Plus Certified,ATX12V v2.3/EPS12V v2.91, Active-PFC Power Supply, UL,FCC,CE,TUV,ROHS
A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model ADQVE1A16K
GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
System costs $435.00 CDN
Naturally, 2nd option is longer term, but should I go with option 1 and give it a 1 year test drive before I take the plunge on a better system?
Also, if I decide to go with option 1, how do I migrate from an old build to a new build? Do I re-install WHS in new system and format HDD's or can I just move them to new system without problem?
Final question, what happens if my old system crashes? Mobo dies, CPU dies (assume HDD is no problem since it will be new either way). Will I e able to recover the data on HDD's or is it stored in some proprietary fashion that will not allow me to access data on HDD's if I plug them into another system.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment.- 已編輯chuck_in_montreal Wednesday, 1 July, 2009 21:07
解答
- Build for the long term. You will almost certainly experience less headaches as a result. An old system may have marginal components, which are on the edge of failure: mechanical components (fans, drives) will be old and may be unhealthy; old capacitors may be dried out, other electronic components may have drifted out of spec, etc.
Files in your server's shares are just files, nothing more. Windows Home Server uses the NTFS file system for all it's drives. So while Drive Extender works magic behind the scenes, the files themselves are readable on any computer that can read an NTFS formatted drive.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)- 已提議為解答kariya21MVP, 版主Wednesday, 1 July, 2009 23:17
- 已標示為解答chuck_in_montreal Thursday, 2 July, 2009 20:58
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- Build for the long term. You will almost certainly experience less headaches as a result. An old system may have marginal components, which are on the edge of failure: mechanical components (fans, drives) will be old and may be unhealthy; old capacitors may be dried out, other electronic components may have drifted out of spec, etc.
Files in your server's shares are just files, nothing more. Windows Home Server uses the NTFS file system for all it's drives. So while Drive Extender works magic behind the scenes, the files themselves are readable on any computer that can read an NTFS formatted drive.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)- 已提議為解答kariya21MVP, 版主Wednesday, 1 July, 2009 23:17
- 已標示為解答chuck_in_montreal Thursday, 2 July, 2009 20:58
