"With Bill Gates' announcement earlier this year that Windows Home Server would be available as a 'system builder' product (that means 'OEM' to most hardware geeks), enthusiasts and system builders alike have been looking forward to its release. With several different rumors being floated last week regarding when Windows Home Server would hit store shelves, we checked in with Microsoft to get the full and somewhat-confusing story. The short version is: it's already out in the wild, but catching a copy from your favorite reseller may prove tricky for at least two more weeks."
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You might be surprised. When I started my current job they had a file server that doubled as a graphic artist workstation. Since that was failing miserably and was built with horrible components, I built us a server with proper RAID and backup and such.
At first I set it up to use Windows file sharing (given, not Windows Server) to share the about 80GB of graphic files (which have since been organized into folders, thank you. that took me a few days). It took about 30 seconds to load the folder if it hadn't been accessed lately. I installed Arch Linux on the same hardware and shared it out with Samba. It loaded up in 2 seconds and instantaneously after that until a reboot.
I'd like to add OpenAFS to that better free alternatives list. I'm going to be moving over to that on my home server as a trial, I just might move over the server at work. Replication and transparent access ftw!
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"Free and better alternatives"
I'm wondering what makes you an authority on why those products are better? Have you used WHS? Are you a WHS expert?
Personally I'm not an expert either, but I guarantee you that WHS works better on a Windows network than any of the solutions you mentioned. And 200 bucks? Who doesn't have 200 bucks laying around?