![]() Just shutdown, seat the drives, push them in, boot up and tell the admin console that the drives are cool to use. There were NO tools required and no cables. Mine came with bays 3 and 4 filled with two 500 gig Seagates, so I added some other SATA drives I had lying around. ![]() The tooling on the hard drive enclosures is brilliant. You have to remote into it with the Home Server Software, which is really no big deal. It's headless, meaning it has no VGA or DVI port. Like maybe the size of 2 technical books. I took one of my Western Digital My Book External Drives and use it as a Backup to the Backup. The Home Server is so pretty I took it out of the Wiring Closet and put it in the Home Office. You might remember that I did a Podcast with the Father of Windows Home Server, Charlie Kindel. ![]() Fortunately I hadn't lost any data, since Home Server makes copies, but I was getting nervous with my existing hardware. I've been using WHS since Beta2 and was ready to tidy up my Frankenserver, which was largely a DIY (Do It Yourself) and I'd been having some hard drives go belly up lately. There's two versions, the 500gig and the 1TB. Yesterday I received my HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server in the mail. ![]()
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