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    i don't see an OS listed in the price list

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    People still pay for os (sarcasm)? I would think XBMC would be a great standalone for an htpc and beyond that I thought most of us had student distros at this point anyway.
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    i forget that this is a younger crowd on here with that student distro action going on.

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    Im going to be putting windows 7 on it then using Boxee for the media
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    Quote Originally Posted by xr4man View Post
    i forget that this is a younger crowd on here with that student distro action going on.
    my student msdn remained active for years after graduation
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    Been meaning to post this for a while. The server wasn't a purchase as it was excess stock and all I had to do was sign a form saying I would dispose of it responsibly when I was done. I did purchase the 2U wall mount bracket and the Sans Digital TowerRaid TR5M+B though. Finally have it running the copy of WHS 2011 I picked up from blueonblack a while back.



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    External enclosure has 2x 250GB SATA2 WD drives in Raid 1, 2x 250GB SATA1 Maxtor drives in Raid 1, and a JBOD 1.5TB WD Green drive.
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    Nice dude! How much did that cost you?

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    The server was free since it was going to be disposed of. The wall mount and raid tower cost about $200 CDN as I got the tower on sale and the wall mount through connections with a tech supplier. The whole thing set me back less than $300 with the OS, though I did lose a few days figuring out how to set up the server since it needed major updates on pretty much everything.
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    What OS you going to use? I'm pretty good with server OS' so please shout if you need help.

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    It's currently running Windows Home Server 2011, though I had installed Server 2008 R2 for a bit while I comtemplated running WHS in Hyper-V. Once I figured out how to do the WHS install on a drive smaller than 160GB I switched because I didn't need the added features or complexity that 2008 brought.
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