At this year’s CES, Microsoft announced that by sometime in the summer, Windows Home Server devices will be made available. You can find a video that gives an overview of Windows Home Server on Channel 10. Windows Home Server is a headless device with a client and web browser interface that functions similar to a NAS device. There is no actual RAID controller in a WHS, but RAID-like functionality apparently exists via simple data mirroring. Additional storage may be added via internal (ATA/SATA) or external hard drives (USB/Firewire). Thankfully, Microsoft opted to use SMB for file-sharing, so Linux and Mac clients can access data on a Windows Home Server. All of this is compelling to me and adds another home storage device that I must take into consideration.
To recap, here are the offerings I’m currently investigating:
Now I must consider Windows Home Server as well as a mystery NAS device Linksys announced at this year’s CES. So far, I’m leaning toward Infrant’s offering because I like the sound of their X-RAID functionality. Anybody out there able to help me in my decision?
