The world-wide pricing for Windows Home Server 2011 OEM software has been slashed. If you want to build your own WHS 2011 box there has never been a better time.
This is not a special offer or a limited time deal – this is the new pricing for Windows Home Server 2011.
For example, one UK website are now showing WHS 2011 for £42.49 including VAT.
Amazon are already showing sellers with the reduced price, but sites like Newegg.com are still showing the old price. I think that is just a matter time before they drop theirs.
Personally I am not sure whether to be happy about the price drop, or concerned about it. WHS 2011 has only been out a couple of months, we haven’t really seen many OEMs releasing servers, certainly nothing from the “big boys”.
So this will either stimulate the market, or does it begin to spell the beginning of the end of WHS 2011?
What do you think?
Nothing here in Canada concerning WHS 2011. Product even not available on newegg or Amazon. How do you want people to buy when it is not available anywhere in the country. Only place is on street stores where it is a special order. But, how lonhg you have to wait to get it? Really bad marketing for an interesting product…
Plus another $20-200 to replace the core DE functionality Microsoft has ripped out…
With the elimination of DE and the 2TB backup limit, I see the product as less user friendly. But with a price of $50, I could see OEM’s instal WHS2011 on 2 bay NAS boxes like the IO-Data. Then this could dominate that market where people can pay $100-$199 for a advanced, full featured backup solution. I’m excited.
Now that would be great to see!
It certainly worries me. It has too much of the smell of a desperate, last gasp about it.
I’ve lived with it for about four days now, and I don’t have all the bugs worked out – PC backups aren’t working yet, for instance, and it is that feature more than any other that sold me my first copy of WHS.
I’ll hope for the best.
thanks Lauren. For me, I only really use the backup/restore features of WHS 2011, so that is the killer feature.
If you need some help getting yours to work, jump into our forums and we will do what we can to get you sorted.
I had the same issue as you. I have been using WHS 2011 since it officially came out. I bought it threw Amazon and used border mail because I live in Canada.
Anyways, I had issues at first with WHS regarding backups and other services weren’t working.
I decided to reinstall everything as I changed my initial drive to a 2Tb black WD. After installation, I did the updates and then reconfigured users/folders. It has been around 1 month and everything works like a charm.
I was even able to buy an external USB drive bay (5 slots) to install 3Tb drives for backup purpose. At the moment I have 9TB for backups.
The 2Tb limit is only for folders/shares.
I love WHS 2011, compared to WHS that had lots of issues for me.
thats great news Angelo – thanks 🙂
Oh well, muggins here bought it at top whack when it was first available in The Netherlands. I see that I could now buy it from Dutch Resellers at half the price… Let this be a lesson for me.
I have had my doubts about the quality of the WHS 2011 product for a long time. It would seem that the market agrees.