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<font face="sans-serif">The daft thing is...the majority of what people
use them for is basically just as a network drive.<br>
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It's much much easier and quicker just to buy an external HDD with a
network port. It's what I do. It's also much more power efficient and
have an instant-on boot up time therefore making it more worthwhile
just turning them off when not in use. It's not a good use of a old
PC...frankly I think it's better to have them recycled rather than them
sucking up a lot of power.<br>
<br>
As for backup's - I use JungleDisk and store them on Amazon S3
(currently this backup cost me 20p a month although I've not yet
uploaded my photographs yet however this probably will increase to just
£2 a month or thereabouts).<br>
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Dafydd Eveleigh wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi All
Hope you all had an ace Christmas and looking forward to the new year.
I have notice that there seems to be a growing popularity for the
"Home Server". Of course most of these home servers are Windows Based
(Yuuk) also there are rumours that Apple Mac will be launching their
version as the Mac Conference in 2009.
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href="http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/?jumpid=ex_r602_go/mediasmartserver">http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/?jumpid=ex_r602_go/mediasmartserver</a>
I just wondered how easy is it to create something similar with Linux
preferably Ubuntu?
Regards
Dy
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