RE: Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Richard \(lists\)" <rich_lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The thing is, you don't need to run out of drive letters, you just
mount
drives into directories on the C drive and then share that.



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Wayne
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:55 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!



May I ask why you dropped the mac mini solution? From what I can
remember this (in its day) seemed to handle things better than windows
server could.

Wayne.

Phil Harris wrote:
> Oh absolutely - that was my big issue to get round myself - no longer
being
> aware of exactly what drive held what ... I've been manually
"fettling" my
> storage for years to the point of anally moving terabytes of data so
that
my
> movies files were always stored alphabetically sorted across all the
movie
> drives (20+ of them on the old Mac Mini based server I had).
>
> I was using shared drives on an XP machine but XP doesn't handle being
used
> as a server very well plus I was running out of drive letters and
having
my
> movies spread across over half a dozen network shares was a pain too.
:-D





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