I setup WHS in 2009 for the basic reason so I could use multiple computers in my house and all the info would be in one place. My WHS is a Atom mother board with 1Gb of memory, which was max allowed. My WHS is networked where I have 2 wired
and 2 wireless computers. This has worked well for the past few years but I started to think. All of my network computers have more capability and memory than my WHS, except for hard drive capacity for backing up all my network computers.
I am basically using WHS as a server. My drawing software, schematic software, music is all on my WHS and I go to the WHS from my other computers and use WHS through my network computers. I was wondering, I am using a network 3.0Ghz computer with
16Gb of memory to access a 1.80Ghz with 1Ghz of memory and doing my work there. Should I not have the big gun as the WHS and be accessing it with lesser capability network computers. I am sure there are folks out there that know the correct method
to utilize the WHS in the most efficient way. I would appreciate some input. Thanks, GR5821
I don't believe WHS is designed to be an applications server in that sense. If you are using the WHS to do the hard work for a 3GHz computer with 16GB of memory then I agree that's wrong. Before upgrading your WHS though I would think carefully about what
you are trying to achieve. Do you really need to run your drawing/schematic software from all 4 machines or would you be better off running it on your main machine and using your WHS for what it's intended? I am not a fan of client/server architecture!
