I finally took delivery of my new PC and an OEM copy of Windows Home Server 2011 last week. Very exciting! I was looking forward to ditching the noisy old NAS, cetralising my household backup routine and having a quicker DLNA server. I was also looking forward to trying our some of the add-ins...
I hate to do this, but I'm about to push the button on the purchase of a machine that will become my Home Server. I will be running Windows Home Server 2011 on it -- handling backups and serving media to DLNA receivers around the house; maybe some transcoding. It's replacing my NAS.
This is the...