Home Server Annoyance

I had talked in the past on how fantastic Windows Home Server is (dreams about subpoenas and warrants notwithstanding.

Here's an annoyance I just had... well, perhaps that's a bit harsh. It would be an annoyance for the true "home" user that is the target audience. I'm restoring my media pc, by replacing a hard drive that's probably a month or two from death. So I made sure there was a good backup, and swapped out the hard drive (which was in a very annoying place on my media center pc).

I pop in the home computer restore disk (the one that allows it to boot from CD, find the home server -- must have a basic network stack -- , and restore from backup), tell it that it's fine to boot from the CD, when I get a message I almost don't think twice about. Two options (paraphrased from memory):

Restore a PC that has 512mb RAM or Less

Restore a PC that has more than 512mb RAM

Is it just me, or is the separation between RAM and HD space lost to the mainstream computer user? It should just default to >512mb -- how long has a gig or more been the standard?

Posted on 3/29/2009 6:36:00 PM by Jason Nadal

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