February 16, 200818 yr Hi I am thinking about buying one of those HP machines with WHS preinstalled on it, purely for it's networking abilities and remote operation. It only has one ethernet port on it and all other ports for external drives are USB/Firewire, will it play nice with my unRAID over an ethernet switch/hub and just see it as extra hard drives? Anybody done this yet?
February 16, 200818 yr I'm not sure what this will offer you. Networking abilities? Remote operation? Do you have specific requirements? Bill
February 16, 200818 yr will it play nice with my unRAID over an ethernet switch/hub and just see it as extra hard drives? I'm not sure what you mean, WHS will allow you to connect to any unraid drives or shares like any other windows computer, it won't work for backup, but there's no point backing up unraid. I only use WHS to backup my windows computers system drive, and for that it works great, for storage there's nothing like Unraid
February 18, 200818 yr Author WHS has some nice network service features, automated backup, media server. And it seems like 3'part development is getting traction developing extensions to WHS. WHS as a frontend and Unraid as a bitbucket, would be a powerfull cocktail. /Rene Yep, that is exactly what I am talking about. Buy the HP with WHS on it and the base 500GB HD and use the unRAID (currently 5.5TB) for a total of 6GB plus the capacity to add another 3 x 1TB drives to the HP if I wanted to (obviously not RAID though). Just wanted to make sure there was not some daft reason for the HP/WHS to recognise the unRAID over ethernet....
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