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[newsposter]

from the mouth of the beast...

http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2008/03/10/an-update-on-kb-946676.aspx

The key to a reliable WHS appears to be:

- Use ONE and ONLY ONE disk drive.  Multiple drives are death to file system integrity.
- DO NOT use any kind of software that does rapid-fire read/write activity to the same file or to a group of files in the same directory.
- DO NOT use 'home built' hardware including mobos that have on-board video and networking.

All of which defeats the idea of WHS as an inexpensive alternative to a Server 2003/2008 license or any open souce/Linux solution.

Braaaaap!  Try Again MSFT.

[Stargazer]

My home built Home Server is working great....

Pentium D 3ghz
Intel 945GNTLK motherboard (intergrated Video, Audio, NIC and SATA) 

No problems so far after 6 months.  But I am waiting for Power Pack 1 to start using it heavily. 

The corruption bug hits multi-drive servers, I have not read anything from Microsoft that says any certain hardware is unsafe... other than having multiple hard drives configured by Drive Extender. You can have drives on Home Server that ARE NOT managed by Drive Extender, they then function like a drive normally would with Windows Server 2003.