Home Server - lost in post?
Following my post yesterday, and my excitement at the availability of the RTM software it was only a matter of time before I was disappointed…… Novatech are now reporting that they are expecting stock on September 14th rather than yesterday 
On the plus side, the wonderful guys at SVP have got stock of their 500Gb PATA drives again (£52.30 + VAT) - so one was duly ordered first thing this morning and is en-route now. I suspect that it should arrive along with its’ SATA siblings tomorrow if all goes according to plan :-) This will give me all the storage I need to rebuild my server… Just a USB2 PCI card to come. I’ll have 1 500Gb PATA drive internally, 2 500Gb SATA drives in external caddies attached via USB2.0 (hopefully), and still have 2 USB2.0 & 4 USB1.1 ports free for expansion - loadsa room!!
I’ve managed to source a PCI USB2.0 card in the UK, but it’s also out of stock until ~18th September - so it looks like the big rebuild is gonna have to wait a while There’s also the small matter of no guarantee that it’s supported by WHS - it’s got Windows 2003 Server drivers - so I’m hoping that it’ll be OK… otherwise I may be in the market for a new chassis to house all the kit…. more expense I could do without….
In the meantime, I have my CCNA exam a week on Monday - so the study has commenced 
and so far, so good….. subnetting actually seems to be making sense this time around - I’ve “understood” it before - well enough for MCSE at least - but I suspect that a better understanding is required for CCNA 
Enough waffle for one day - I’ll post my impressions of the new hardware once it arrives - especially the drive caddies…. I’m hoping they’re better than some of the previous ones I’ve had.
