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Windows Home Server Remote PC Backup

How easy is it to use one PC to initiate a manual backup of another PC using Windows Home Server? Extremely. This guide will illustrate.

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Troubleshooting Slow Read/ Transfer Speeds for a Windows Home Server

After recommending WHS to a friend I got a note saying it was running really slow for pulling data off the server, even though writing data was fine. As this friend is not so technically apt, I decided to setup quick test machines, one running Vista 64 the other WHS. Both were using a Dell Perc 5/i raid card and two 500GB 7200rpm Western digital drives in raid 0 (I would never do this in practice, but these were solely built for test purposes.)

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