I just did my first restore from WHS 1.1 yesterday. It did work on my 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium, quad core modern machine, but it was definitely more of a hassle than it should have been. It seems like most people have problems with restoring because of Realtek driver issues. The funny...
Gotta love the economy shipping. Mine has been sitting about 120 miles away for 4 days. I guess UPS Innovations likes to age things for a while before delivery. That way, you know you're getting vintage goods.
I'm intimately aware of Antec cases and video card clearance having recently taken a pair of tin shears to the drive cage of my Antec Solo to fit a Radeon 6950 :D
A couple of other points. I upgraded my 530 to 64 bit Windows 7 recently. It's been running great. However, memory remapping is not an option in the BIOS, so there's no point in having a lot of RAM in there. I have 3 GB in mine.
I have an Inspiron 530 that I bought new a couple of years ago. It has a PCIE slot (presumably x16) and two PCI slots. I have an 8800GT in mine. I had to upgrade the power supply when I added the card.
Actually, I just checked, it also has a PCIE x1 slot.
My WHS has 2 GB of RAM and a dual core 1.6 Ghz Celeron and does fine. This would do well as a WHS with some storage.
The form factor is small, but you can mount another hard drive below the one that's there and another one in the empty optical drive bay. There should be two free SATA ports...
Costco did have a deal for $130, but it sold out very pretty quickly. I also believe it was for delivery only. I was nervous about trying to get the family pack because some places stopped offering them and I thought I read that MS was going to just have this available near the Windows 7...
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