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Originally Posted by Shtaaf
Arkay, I agree, but we (As a group of people who are computer minded) know how to do this. You try explaining how to setup and manage a home server, built either by yourself or a computer store to someone who doesn't know anything past the power button, the keyboard and the mouse and the monitor... They are not targetting us, MS is targetting the "dumb" consumer, the "home" user, who wants to store everything in one place where it is "Safe".
I already have the RAID in place, but you said RAID to a brick layer and they will look at u going "ahh what?". You say "Buy this EASY and SIMPLE solution for all your "stuff" to be stored on and accessed from anywhere" and you will get a "where do I sign?"
Working in retail taught me a lot about the mentality of the average person.
regards,
Stefano
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All I can say to this is "bollocks", If you asked a bricklayer or Joe Average where they'd like to store all their movies / music he'd point to a shelf already filled with CDs/DVD's and say there. If you asked them if they'd like a better place to store their stuff they'd probably point to a better looking shelving unit in the latest Harvey Norman catalogue, anything more complicated than that and Joe don't wanna know.
A home media server is for the next decade at least a niche product meant for the tech savy period. Most of the tech savy crowd do have the knowledge to build their own "custom" media servers.