I came across an item describing the server capabilities built into Windows 8. It sounded like nearly any hardware configuration would support the server function. Has anyone on the board explored using a small, low power Win8 box as a home server?
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Interesting, I actually came to ask this exactly. I have Homeseer running on windows home server 2011 right now, but am thinking of putting it on to an ssd on windows 8 when hs3 releases since I will more or less need to do a fresh build anyway.
Very interested in seeing feedback from anyone running on win 8.
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Originally posted by Uncle Michael View PostI came across an item describing the server capabilities built into Windows 8. It sounded like nearly any hardware configuration would support the server function. Has anyone on the board explored using a small, low power Win8 box as a home server?
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Originally posted by heatvent View PostCan you share what you were looking at?
Two articles in PCWorld:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/20266...me-server.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/20128...windows-8.htmlMike____________________________________________________________ __________________
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So for what its worth, I have played with Storage Spaces quite a bit and they really are very slick. Most of the other features listed in those articles are actually in Win 7 to some degree, and I have been using Win 7 as both an HTPC and file server for some time. The biggest issue with using a desktop OS as a heavy use file server is simply that the OS is not tuned for it, so there are some tweaks that you may have to use to keep it from running out of memory due to file sharing issues. These are minor tweaks, and once you put them in they work fine.
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Originally posted by chewie View PostInteresting, I actually came to ask this exactly. I have Homeseer running on windows home server 2011 right now, but am thinking of putting it on to an ssd on windows 8 when hs3 releases since I will more or less need to do a fresh build anyway.
Very interested in seeing feedback from anyone running on win 8.
are you still running it on whs 2011? i am thinking of starting this up tonight for myself!!!!!HW - i5 4570T @2.9ghz runs @11w | 8gb ram | 128gb ssd OS - Win10 x64
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i was running hs2 on whs2011 and moved to win8.
whs2011 had too many driver problems for me and hs2.HS3 Pro on Windows 8 64bit
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