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<blockquote data-quote="Sh4nn0w" data-source="post: 849977" data-attributes="member: 24809">Personally I have used WHS, Synology NAS (too slow) in the past, but in the end when I did a rebuild of my server I just put Win 7 on it and use that; works great. I have TV server running on it, iTunes, 10TB of storage (TV, Music, Videos, Pics, doc storage), SABnzbd, Deluge, Sickboard, Couchpotato and other stuff; all runs smoothly. I chose that because of the straightforward flexibility to change anything / add prograns etc, which I missed when using a NAS / WHS. I spend very little time administering it.&nbsp;Personally I didn't bother building redundancy for the videos; I just have all my important stuff set to backup weekly to an external drive and also setup a RAID1 mirror for OS / critical data. But you're free to choose. I did use the duplication feature in WHS v1, but pretty sure the current version of WHS has lost the Drive Extender capability, which was the main reason I liked it.&nbsp;You could spend a lot of time reading about RAID and at the end of the day it doesn't replace a backup; but comes down to what you think you need.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sh4nn0w, post: 849977, member: 24809"] Personally I have used WHS, Synology NAS (too slow) in the past, but in the end when I did a rebuild of my server I just put Win 7 on it and use that; works great. I have TV server running on it, iTunes, 10TB of storage (TV, Music, Videos, Pics, doc storage), SABnzbd, Deluge, Sickboard, Couchpotato and other stuff; all runs smoothly. I chose that because of the straightforward flexibility to change anything / add prograns etc, which I missed when using a NAS / WHS. I spend very little time administering it. Personally I didn't bother building redundancy for the videos; I just have all my important stuff set to backup weekly to an external drive and also setup a RAID1 mirror for OS / critical data. But you're free to choose. I did use the duplication feature in WHS v1, but pretty sure the current version of WHS has lost the Drive Extender capability, which was the main reason I liked it. You could spend a lot of time reading about RAID and at the end of the day it doesn't replace a backup; but comes down to what you think you need. [/QUOTE]

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