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The good, the bad and the ugly of Windows Home Servers

Medion_hp_and_belinea_whs Windows Home Server (WHS) has been given a much needed boost in the last two weeks, thanks to new models from Belinea and Fujitsu Siemens.

Microsoft’s woes stem from a bug which occasionally corrupts the files you backup onto WHS and Medion, for starters, is withholding a product until a fix arrives.

Belinea_ocenter_front_on It's refreshing to see Belinea make an orange and white WHS, rather than in grey or black. This is, after all, something that you have to live with if you buy it.

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Fujitsu Siemens' WHS is definitely the ugliest of the bunch however. It uses an Intel design and I’m guessing it is twice the volume of any other WHS. It looks like a massive cinema projector.

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Update March 7: Iomega just told me that it too has put its Windows Home Server plans on hold, despite earlier naming its 500GB "HomeCenter Server" model. Iomega is waiting to see how the whole WHS thing pans out...

Posted by Emil Larsen on March 6, 2008 | Permalink

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