I recently got an HP Proliant Microserver (which currently has a £100 cash back offer from HP) to store media and backups on. This is a little server box with 4 drive bays sporting a low power dual core AMD processor. I've added 4GB of DDR3 ECC RAM to give 5GB and as well as the 250GB HDD that comes with it, added a 2TB drive for storage. I had a spare copy of Vista so its currently running that while I wait for Windows Home Server 2011 to arrive.
I had a couple of issues installing Vista on it. First of all I had to change the SATA controller to IDE mode in the bios to get the installer to detect the hard drive.
Vista didn't find an ethernet driver. The machine has a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5723 ethernet controller so I was able to use a driver from the Broadcom site.
Finally, rather than use the standard VGA driver, I used ATI Catalyst Mobility utility to pull down the appropriate graphics driver.
Vista runs a little sluggish on this machine but it should be fine for a little share sharing until WHS 2011 arrives.
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