I’m well into the process of migrating my Windows Home Server from "commodity whitebox hardware" over onto a laptop.   Primarily to reduce the about of [active] power I’m burning, and secondly reduce the noise.

I've ordered an eSata card, let's see if it makes a difference?! I’ve a little more testing to do around storage; Do I persist with USB2 harddisks, or look at eSata — eventually I might move to a laptop with the new super sexy atom chipset.

Then again I might not.

Eventually, I’m looking at moving my Home Server into a virtual machine; perhaps along with my media center, maybe even on the same host - but that will require USB TV tuners, and usb support.  =)

But right now, I needs a home server up and running again, and ghastly old whiteboxes are so 1990’s =)

TTFN