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wolfslab
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I need a good home server software and I have been looking at windows home server 2011. Is there anything better than that. And I need it to have easy setup to remote access to the files on the server and if possible to computers on the network.

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FreeNAS?

FreeNAS is objectively better in terms of features and power, but not in terms of ease-of-use. 

 

I need a good home server software and I have been looking at windows home server 2011. Is there anything better than that. And I need it to have easy setup to remote access to the files on the server and if possible to computers on the network.

I recommend Amahi Home Server. It's feature packed (thanks to plugins), a storage server oriented OS, and has a focus on "this is easy to use" that FreeNAS somewhat lacks. 

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Oh, and wolfslab, It's free. WHS 2011 is not free.

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I currently have a temporary FreeNAS server until I can upgrade.

Windows Home server is hardly an upgrade. FreeNAS is easily one of the best storage server OS'.

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I'm using a laptop for FreeNAS right now and I'm gonna buy a actual server.

When you say "And I need it to have easy setup", what do you mean?

How much do you want to learn and have to manually configure this server? Do you want "plug N play" or something a bit more power user? 

I assume power user considering you are buying an actual server dedicated for this (which I define as something from an Intel Celeron to an AMD Opteron/Intel Xeon with lots of ECC RAM and storage space).

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I want something that when you set it up you can easily find everything you need without looking it up or having trouble.

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I want something that when you set it up you can easily find everything you need without looking it up or having trouble.

Then you want Amahi. FreeNAS is what I personally prefer, but I like to be a power user and learn a lot about things I know nothing about (I have time for that). Unless you already know a lot about FreeNAS, I wouldn't choose it. Amahi doesn't have high system requirements like FreeNAS does, so you won't need as powerful of a server to utilize Amahi's best features (like FreeNAS requires). 

That's what I would do anyway, in your position.

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The server I'm getting is not high end and it looks like I would use Amahi. I check there website and Vitalius is right, there recommend specs are lower than FreeNAS and it's pretty close to what I'm getting for my server.

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