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How To Build an Awesome $500 Windows Home Server - Tested

image It was a little convoluted path on how I got to this great technology website that has a wealth of information on it about, well, Technology. They have great How-To Videos and blog posts describing how to make technology items to add to your life, software that makes your products work better or smarter and general information about which is the best products to buy to meet the price/performance ratio best choice.

In this article they describe the process on how to build a Home Server Box using Windows Home Server. The video includes a discussion on the why they picked the components that they picked and goes through assembling the box. The blog that the link below will take you to, goes through a more in-depth discussion of parts comparisons as well as the software they used to finish the load process on setting up the Home Server.

Also, included in the blog post are different add-on products that will discuss what other add-ons' they suggest using to give your new home server more function and capabilities in your home. SO! if you are interested in adding a centralized media server in your home for all of your computers (up to 10) and other media centric devices, take a look at this article to see whether you want to make the leap the right way…

How To Build an Awesome $500 Windows Home Server - Tested

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    How many gigabytes of movies, music, and photos do you have on your local hard disks, external drives, and random USB keys? We're willing to bet a lot. We'd also wager that the vast majority of this media never gets accessed--what a waste. Worse yet, all your accumulated data is just one inevitable disk failure away from being lost forever. It's time to give your media a safer and smarter home in the form of a Home Server. We'll show you how to build an inexpensive but powerful server to back up
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The video is quite explicit and that's great! Now i'm seriously thinking that 500$ it's not a big amount of money for a quality home server, and like you said it's Awesome! I hope you'll bring us some new videos about servers and how are them made.

June 6, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterEddie

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