I am planning my build-your-own WHS2011 and wanted to know some things about backup before I decide to buy hard drives.
I currently have a NAS with two 1TB drives (mirrored) where I have my client PC backups, music/videos backup and installables. Currently that is about 800GB. Also, I am considering the HP ProLiant Microserver with 4 drive bays as my hardware.
Considering that the WHS system will not take more than maybe 60-70GB, I am wondering if I can use the two 1TB drives, where the main drive gets split into 80GB and 900-something GB and these get backed up to the second 1TB drive similarly. Then I can get
two 2TB drives for additional storage and use them in mirrored configuration.
I understand "mirrored" in this scenario may be the wrong term. I meant to say, "backed up automatically to" when I mention mirrored in my proposal.
The question is, will this setup work? Is there a "better" alternative given what I am trying to accomplish?