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GeneralRe: Looking for small home server specs Pin
Ray Cassick1-Oct-10 14:32
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Ray Cassick6-Oct-10 15:58
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Dan Neely7-Oct-10 2:39
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Ray Cassick7-Oct-10 13:34
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Dan Neely8-Oct-10 2:24
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Dan Neely4-Oct-10 2:22
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Roger Wright6-Oct-10 17:26
professionalRoger Wright6-Oct-10 17:26 
Any Windows PC can act as a file and print server; there's no need to use a Server OS if you don't need the domain controller functions. SQL Server is a resource hog, though, so you'll want to spend your money on lots of RAM and disk storage. Both have become very cheap in recent years, and since performance isn't a major issue for you, you can save a little on the computing hardware and spend more on the storage. I do think $1000 is a better target for you than $500 - that only gets you a low level desktop.

One item I find useful is the plentiful selection of large, cheap external disks available now. A few hundred bucks buy a lot of terabytes of storage these days, and those make nice backup devices.
Will Rogers never met me.

QuestionActually, its odd how few device driver questions there are on this board. Am I the only kernel dev guy here? Pin
fat_boy8-Sep-10 1:29
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JudyL_MD8-Sep-10 13:16
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John Buller23-Sep-10 5:06
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GeneralRe: Actually, its odd how few device driver questions there are on this board. Am I the only kernel dev guy here? Pin
fat_boy23-Sep-10 19:48
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John Buller28-Sep-10 5:08
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fat_boy29-Sep-10 5:31
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Questionatmega32 programmer [modified] Pin
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QuestionWhat is the effect of FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_ALERT in ZwCreateFile? Pin
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