The Media Server

This isn’t probably the most interesting post I could put up, but I still haven’t pulled the pictures off my camera of Heather’s project πŸ™‚

I have a Windows Home Server running in our apartment! I had planned on it just being large network storage location, and knew the Windows Home Server setup let you do a few cool things. As it turns out its really amazing what it can do, automatic imaging of entire computers for one thing! I haven’t really had time to get it fully configured yet, but I have been really excited about it so far.

now for a little bragging:

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2.37 terabytes! Chances are I will find a way to outgrow that somehow, but it will take a while πŸ™‚ For now the only things setting on the drive are the daily images of Heather’s laptop,Β  a few MP3s and all the pictures I wanted to backup off my computer.

It looks like I will be able to map a drive from both Heather’s laptop and my PC to have Picasa work off the server, allowing Heather or I to download our camera once and have the same working set both places, also means a picture edited on one computer will be in the new state for both. I think its going to be really awesome! I may find out Picasa hates working off a network drive, or something like that, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it πŸ™‚

-Jordan

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