For you PC nerds

[Monica Lewinsky]

Have this at home:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx

Got a laptop [ have 5 workstations for the 2 of us at home ].

Was seeing running out of space on the hd on my laptop 50 gigs of 70 used. The other 10 gigs was the Recovery partition on a 80-gig hd.

Got a 500 gigabyte SATA drive for $69.00 at the local Micro Center store today for the laptop.

Swapped them out - the hard drives - was easy with a Phillips screw driver.

The idea of converting my laptop from 80-gig of hard drive to a 500 gigabyte hard drive was a walk in the park thanks to MS Windows Home Server.

Stuck in the WHS Restore CD, restored to the new hd, rebooted, 10% used - 90% free space after the change.

Total time = 1 hour and 20 minutes.

The SAME box has my website on it [FREE]
http://learnabit.net

via domain name forwarding ... cost $10 bucks a year,

and

for FREE I share ALL my pictures for the same PC box:

http://learnabit.homeserver.com/mikephotos


OVER and out.
Look into to it. Might save you a ton of time and headaches.

Ogh, and the other 4 machines backed up EVERY day have the same feature of ... it gets wiped out ... stick the restore CD in and it [the machine] is back to what it was as of midnight today.

Finally, I am using 2 of 3 terabytes of storage. Biggest use ... movies ... dropped cable subscription. Want a movie? fire it up from the Home server watch it on any TV in the house.

When I get concerned about server storage space , I buy another 1-terabyte USB drive, stick it in, it asks "storage" or "backup". I say storage and grow another terabye of storage in 45-60 seconds of time.

[longam]

I Dont know if WHS comes with it but get a copy of WSUS and keep all your systems up to date but only have to use one DL instead of 5 per update.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx

[Tchocky]

Are you getting commission on those or wha'