Tim Higgins
I’m still on the learning curve with the software that runs SmallNetBuilder. The good news is that traffic is healthy. The bad is that the server isn’t handling it so well.
Before I go dip into my pocketbook one more time to buy more RAM, I’ve temporarily disabled the comment feature to see if that helps things. Not exactly a user-friendly thing to do, but it’s just an experiment.
Thanks for your patience while I get the problems sorted out.
As is too often the case, yet another networking term that initially had clear meaning has been grabbed by the marketeers and is being used to lure gullible buyers.
Over the weekend, we've tweaked the NAS and Router Charts to increase your product comparison pleasure.
In his CES keynote, Bill Gates introduced the Microsoft Home Server, but didn't provide many details. Thankfully, George Ou is also at CES and did a good drilldown with the Microsofties and spills some of the beans behind what makes the product tick.
The short story is that it is based on Windows Server 2003 R2 and has a "rich" admin GUI delivered to a Windows desktop and a not-so-fancy one for the riff-raff who choose to run another OS. Windows Server 2003 also powers some of Iomega's StorCenter Pro series NASes and they ain't cheap. And when Jim Buzbee looked at the StorCenter Pro NAS 200d/320GB with REV built-in, he found that some admin functions required dropping into Windows Remote Desktop.
