1. Choosing  your Components – A list of efficient, stable components for building a Windows Home Server.
2. Assembling your Components – Steps on assembling your components.
3. Installation, Bios Tweaks and Software Additions – Installation of WHS, Bios tweaks and software additions.
4. Final Thoughts, Recommendations – After thoughts on the process of setting up Windows Home Server. 
 

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Final Thoughts
So far I’m loving my WHS. I don’t have to worry about manually backing up my PC’s. WHS will backup my PC’s during a predetermined schedule and if the PC is sleeping or in hibernation mode it will wake them up.
The temp has been averaging around 23.C. and benchmark test conclude that it’s respectable to other similar systems. (will post tests soon)
Hardware additions
Since the putting the system together, I added two additional hard drives. One internal SATA drive to add to the storage pool and one External ESATA drive …

WHS Installation
The installation of WHS went as planned with no major hiccups. After WHS was installed I added the second hard drive and turned on the duplication feature so the files in my shared folders where duplicated in case one of my hard drives failed I would still have a backup copy. Now that I had WHS up and running  I added the connection software to my home PC’s.
 REMARK: Install the Home Server Connector Software from the server location  \\Server\Software\Home Server Connector this will guarantee that you have the latest …

Power Supply and Case Fan
 
I recommend the fist step be to  install the Power supply. Apparently size is a factor here in that the power supply must not exceed 140mm, do to case limitations. Unless you can determine the size of your power supply it’s trial and error as to which one will fit. I choose Seasonic because I read that it would fit the case. I also replaced the stock case fan with fan by Antec because it’s reputed to be quieter.

Motherboard, CPU, Ram

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Introduction
 
With the saturation of PC’s in the market place, it’s becoming more common to have more than one PC in the home. With multiple PC’s in the home, the question arises how to go about backing up all the data on so many different PC’s?
We won’t go into detail about all the available options for backing up your PC’s, that’s another topic and you can read some possible solutions here.
Another option that I recently implemented at home for myself is Windows Home Server which in addition to backing up …