Windows Home Server was released to manufacture a couple weeks ago. I haven't even done an article on my RC1 experiences and it has been RTM already. I know I'm late. I even took some screenshots of the settings page that I wanted to post here, so I wasn't that late!

My experiences? It's an amazing product, and I'm going to buy it as soon as I can get it.

Well, I love forgetting about backups. Now I know (and I can check whenever I want) that I have a backup of all my home computers. I can access my files when I'm out of my house. I love that when you want to download a folder, it compresses it on a zip file so you can download it easily.

I will also install it on my father's office. There are only three computers at his office, and a Windows Server 2003 is too much. This is easier to manage (just install the client CD on each computer), easier to maintain (storage problems? just add another one, you'll see just one data drive) and I'm almost sure that it will be cheaper than WS2003. 200€, anyone?

There's just one thing that I didn't like about it. Probably it's me and the lack of research that I did. Anyway, I'm explaining it. When I installed it, I wanted the first drive to be the OS drive, but I couldn't. WHS automatically made a 20GB partition for the OS, and the rest for data. Maybe that was because I just plugged in the first drive. If I have a second drive while installing, will I be able to choose that I want the first one as a OS-only drive? I was thinking on getting two 80GB drives and set them up in RAID 1 so I minimize the possibilities of losing the WHS installation.

Will you use WHS? I want to know why! (whatever your answer is).

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