Hello, I am new to Home Server (although am a technical user). I am looking at converting one of my old desktop machines to a home server and am trying to decide if I should go with the currently released version (Home Server 2008, I believe?)
No, WHS v1 is written on top of Server 2003 SBS.
or if I should go straight onto Vail. I'm used to betas so that's not a concern for me - it's more whether it's stable enough to use as my only home server.
It is beta. As such, storing your only copy of anything on it is not supported, not recommended, and to be honest, foolish. Not to mention that when Vail goes RTM you will probably have to do a fresh OS install again anyway.
Does anyone have any thoughts (either way)? Would you consider it only to be a 'test' version at the moment, or is it solid enough to trust my home data to? Additionally, I wanted to confirm something. I have a 1.5TB disk drive with a lot
of data already on it. I would like all of this data to be made available via the home server, and to use this drive as part of the storage capacity for the machine. If I set up the home server machine and then plug this drive in, will it format it
Yes, it will automatically format the drive once you add it to the storage pool.
or will it keep all the files but still add it to the storage pool?
No.
Many thanks - and I look forward to being more active on this forum! John
To be honest, since you've never used WHS before, you should start with v1 so you get more familiar with the concept (or, if you really want to install Vail, make sure you have backup copies of
everything).
