Let me start this post by acknowledging the fact that I drank the MS cool aid years ago. My job depends on MS and my home runs on MS, other than the obligatory iPod and Blackberry my life revolves around MS operating systems. That being said, this week I embraced a relatively new MS OS/product, the Windows Home Server (WHS). I chose HP's implementation of the Home Server, the EX475 (MediaSmart Server). I am very impressed with this product, so far it appears to deliver upon it's claims of being a very simple home backup/data repository solution. I was compelled to move to the WHS after the birth of my daughter, and the realization that we had 1000s of pictures that I couldn't stand to lose. We limped along for over a year with scripts on several servers copying data from one machine to the next to ensure I had very basic redundancy. The rub was the dependability of the scripts. I wanted a solution that just worked and provided inherent redundancy. So far I have all 4 of my computers backing up nightly to the WHS, I also have all our data stored on the shares which are set to duplicate the data across the WHS drives. I am looking forward to the Power Pack update, which should correct and enhance the WHS system.