{"id":691,"date":"2008-05-03T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2008-05-03T10:58:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:58:55","slug":"rants-windows-home-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/05\/03\/rants-windows-home-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Rants: Windows Home Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I received the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000UXZUZC?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Home Server HP MediaSmart Server EX475<\/a> and had the time to use it. It is now actually running in an office as a backup server.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-692\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/hp_mediasmart_windows_home_server.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first impression of Windows Home Server was positive, until I actually get into the system a little bit more. Three things immediately came to mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How in the world can I rename the Windows Home Server? I can&#8217;t find it anywhere.<\/li>\n<li>How in the asdf can I assign the workgroup for the home server? There&#8217;s no option for this either.<\/li>\n<li>Most importantly, there&#8217;s no way to configure the RAID. This worries me because it seems to be set at RAID 0. YIKES! Then comes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/weblog\/showpost.aspx?i=413\" target=\"_blank\">article from AnandTech<\/a> about possible data corruptions (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/weblog\/showpost.aspx?i=413\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/weblog\/showpost.aspx?i=413<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, there has been some murmur in Microsoft camp. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/946676\" target=\"_blank\">Knowledge Base #946676<\/a>, data corruption may occur, and Microsoft is taking their sweet time. They expect to release the bug-fix sometimes in June 2008.<\/p>\n<p>I am now backing up the content of the Windows Home Server to another &#8220;server&#8221; in that office.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Home Server still needs a lot of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I received the Windows Home Server HP MediaSmart Server EX475 and had the time to use it. It is now actually running in an office as a backup server. My first impression of Windows Home Server was positive, until I actually get into the system a little bit more. Three things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/05\/03\/rants-windows-home-server\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rants: Windows Home Server&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4,6],"tags":[403,404,569,820,2009,934,2511,936,3216,3222],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-rants","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-bugs","tag-data-corruption","tag-media","tag-microsoft","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-windows","tag-windows-home-server"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}