By Philip Churchill on January 26th, 2011
An Xbox Home Server?
An Xbox Home Server? Why not says ZDNet’s Simon Bisson whilst talking about the future of Windows Home Server.
Simon asks the question:
So if Home Server is on the move, where should it go?
And states:
Thinking about it, there’s one logical home for Home Server’s software, and another for its hardware.
Personally I think Windows Home Server’s future is a bright one. We may have lost Drive Extender but as the clique from the 1800’s states: “Onwards and upwards”.
You can read Simon’s article here.
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I agree that storing video and audio on an Xbox-type device would be in the realm of making sense but I fail to see the logic of WHS functions on such a device… whs, after all, is a windows network management device that offers intelligent backup and, until recently, a level of data integrity.
Audio and video on the xbox? sure, put in large drive / cloud music service support and expose it via a Homegroup and call it Xbox Media Server. VSS Backups on a gaming console? No.
I kind of agree with Shoon, an XBOX as a backup machine?? I’m not sure I want my backup solution on a machine that my 14 year old routinely yells at and I wonder if he’s going to throw the controller at someday.
But, if the idea is to try and preserve the WHS, then maybe the article is spot on. Look, the more WHS is tied to a tablet, the XBOX or Kinect, the more chance won’t die. Who cares if it makes sense, we and more importantly the MS WHS team should be dreaming up a way, heck any way for WHS to exist in these technologies.
We are all smart folks, put your heads together, find a problem with tablets, XBOX, XBOX Live, Kinect or WP7 that WHS can solve or use the above technologies. That is the only way to save it. Otherwise, stick a fork in WHS.
Hmmmm.
Given that some WHS users have LOTS of hard drives in their WHS with the associated noise; is it really a sensible idea to have this facility in the living room as an xbox type device?
However, as a means of keeping WHS alive such integration makes perfect sense, and enables microsoft to sell more hardware …xbox WHS edition