The weekend I took some spare parts and built a computer into a wall of the office closet.
AMD 3200 CPU
512 Meg Memory =>448 Meg after video memory
320 Gig HDD
300 Watt PS
This is a Community Technology Preview copy to be released in a month or so. The purpose it to make backups easy and provide easily upgradeable storage. MS thinks you’ll have one of these in a closet and to make automated backups of 2-5 family computers. It’s also a central point to store music and videos.
My intention is to create a massive, relatively low power, central storage server. If it can do backups great. TiVo can only access one drive. Today, this is no more than 1 TB. The WHS allows you to add any number of drives. Right now, there is 1.12 TB of free space on it.
Last night the SC101 device failed. So, I took off the face plate, unplugged the cable for the SC101, and plugged in a cable for the computer. This way it uses the SC101 for power supply, 60 watts, and the computer can use the drives. This isn’t really necessary for the 300 Watt power supply, but I hope to swap that out for a low 60 watt brick. Or maybe not, we’ll see.