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Gilco2

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#220275 3-Aug-2017 09:35
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my faithful whs2011 computer died.  I use it for home records and plex server.   Wondering if worth it still to use whs2011 as it was perfect for my use or just use Windows 10 or openmediavault.  Windows 10 seems promising just the forced updates may be a problem. 

 

Edit to say use Stablebits Drivepool and scanner for pooling drives and monitoring the drives




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  #1836375 3-Aug-2017 11:11
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Gilco2:

 

davidcole:

 

I replaced WHS2011 with Windows Server 2012 (but had Windows 7 for a while) and DriveBender for drive pooling.

 

I Still run it, it hosts my plex server, centralised backups (crashplan) and hyper-v for running other machines (mix of windows and linux).  It's still entirely possible.  The main advantage of Server 2012 and Windows 7 IIRC, is allowing more that 3gb ram - wasn't there a limit in WHS2011?

 

Had a look a while back at 2012 but more than what I need.  WHS2011 has ram limit of 8gb

 

 

Yeah and for virtualisation I run 32.  So it's entirely possible you just rebuild on new hardware.  I dont think there's anything wrong with what you've got.




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