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<blockquote data-quote="TheBatfink" data-source="post: 994169" data-attributes="member: 52265">If it hasn't been said already, Stablebit drivepool is a nice tool that can pool drives (obviously) and provide redundancy to specific files and folders etc if you don't want to go the Raid route. Works well and integrates into WHS2011 dashboard (if thats the route you want to take). Also can recommend Stablebit Scanner for keeping an eye on the drives <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> <a href="http://stablebit.com/" target="_blank">http://stablebit.com/</a>&nbsp;Personally I run a HP microserver (works fine for just file serving never attempted transcoding). I stuck the system drive in the optical bay and then run 3TB WD Red drives x 4 in the normal bays. Pretty low power solution with a fair amount of storage (and the drives have 3 year warrenties).For backup, have the exact same system and hardware duplicated and just backup one to the other incrementally with syncback (use simple bat files to wake up the second server and put it back to sleep after the backups).&nbsp;Only downside at mo is WHS2011 won't auto backup Win8 clients which is a bummer as its a really nice feature when used with earlier OS's. Combine that with the WHS2011 lightsout plugin and you can get all your clients incrementally backing up each night waking and sleeping them again. Full metal restores are a breeze and single file restores etc are so easy. I like WHS2011 - 2012 I found hard work when all you want to do is serve files.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheBatfink, post: 994169, member: 52265"] If it hasn't been said already, Stablebit drivepool is a nice tool that can pool drives (obviously) and provide redundancy to specific files and folders etc if you don't want to go the Raid route. Works well and integrates into WHS2011 dashboard (if thats the route you want to take). Also can recommend Stablebit Scanner for keeping an eye on the drives ;) [url]http://stablebit.com/[/url] Personally I run a HP microserver (works fine for just file serving never attempted transcoding). I stuck the system drive in the optical bay and then run 3TB WD Red drives x 4 in the normal bays. Pretty low power solution with a fair amount of storage (and the drives have 3 year warrenties). For backup, have the exact same system and hardware duplicated and just backup one to the other incrementally with syncback (use simple bat files to wake up the second server and put it back to sleep after the backups). Only downside at mo is WHS2011 won't auto backup Win8 clients which is a bummer as its a really nice feature when used with earlier OS's. Combine that with the WHS2011 lightsout plugin and you can get all your clients incrementally backing up each night waking and sleeping them again. Full metal restores are a breeze and single file restores etc are so easy. I like WHS2011 - 2012 I found hard work when all you want to do is serve files. [/QUOTE]

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