Hey Guys,
So I finally took the plunge and upgraded my HP MediaSmart EX485 home server from WHS v1 to WHS 2011. There's no official path to upgrade but I've already upgraded the CPU from a Celeron one core to the 2.2Ghz Dual Core E500 which made it much faster without any over heating. I've also upgraded the standard 2GB of ram to 4GB Cass 5 ram. Also gave it a huge performance boost with no heating issues.
I upgraded to WHS 2011 by finding a blog that detailed the whole process. Wasn't... Read more →

I read Paul Thurrott's article (http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/paul-thurrott... but it just doesn't make sense. Or did WHS just not sell enough to make it worth Microsoft's while? It would seem that if they were planning to roll the functionality into SBS (which I personally thought was a mistake given the 'consumer' performance of even higher-end Drobo devices) it might have been getting some decent feedback...

Do you think it's better to build a WHS or buy a pre-built specialized one like the HPs or something?

Is there any reason to have anything other than an on motherboard graphics chip on a WHS?

What no posts about WHS? Post some of your favorite plugins/addons to WHS to make it even more useful. I don't have any right now as I'm a new WHS user, but would like to find out about some good ones.