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    I have the following machines at home

    Laptop 80Gb drive

    Desktop 420Gb drive

    Media Center PC 500Gb, 320Gb and 250Gb drives (TV, Music, photos etc) 

    I've just bought the parts for a WHS machine and I have a 250Gb and a 500Gb drive for it.

    I can't decide which of these is the best plan...

    1. Shift the bulk of my storage into the WHS machine (giving it 500Gb x 2, 320Gb, 250Gb x 2 drives) and use the duplication feature to handle backups

    2. Build the WHS box with the 500,250Gb drives and use it to back up my other machines.

     

    Any thoughts?

     

    Dave

    Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:14 PM

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    Hi Dave

     

    I think the honest answer to your question is what do you prefer?

     

    If you are happy to have WHS act as your storage and you switch on folder duplication then I would say no 1 is the way to go. Thats what I have done and Im quite happy with it. Ok, I also ocassionally backup up my really really important stuff to an external hard drive, but thats just me :-)

     

    No 2 is also a good one as you can have WHS manage all your backups and then you have mulitple copies of your data.

     

    I suppose it all depends on what else you want to use WHS for - if you want to stream or share out your data then option  1 is for you!

     

    hope that helps?


    Andrew

     

    Saturday, October 13, 2007 1:38 PM
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