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    Off Site - NAS Backup

    It is too much; there are better alternatives out there. The one that I consider subscribing is 4.95/month for 100GB or 10$/ 500 GB if I need over 100 GB . As a comparison 1TB with them is 240$/year so the Amazon offer is just a plain rip off for people who are afraid of a Google search. This is...
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    Off Site - NAS Backup

    Why nobody is mentioning Online Storage? It is fire, flood, theft proof and you don’t need to backup everything, only important stuff. Prices are dropping fast and will drop even further in the future. A regular NAS + online backup / storage seems the perfect combination to me.
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    WHS main drive fail

    OK, so there are ways to recover in case one of the drives fails, even the OS drive. But one thing puzzles me and it is common in IT > what if the computer dies (fried motherboard, CPU, etc) and you need to move all the drives in a new PC? Can WHS recover after that, will it work virtually in a...
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    NAS + HTPC all in one > can it be done ?

    The only thing that I'm missing with a dedicated PC is some kind of automated real time file/folder duplication on different discs (more or less lime WHS drive extender). RAID 1 is a waste of drives for what I need. So do you have any tips for software that does that? I know there are a lot of...
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    NAS + HTPC all in one > can it be done ?

    Well, judging by the amount of replies I think it’s safe to say no, it cannot be done (yet). :(
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    WHS main drive fail

    Yes, there is an add-on for that. WHS BDBB.
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    NAS + HTPC all in one > can it be done ?

    Hello everyone! I planned to buy a 2 drive NAS for a while now and finally settled on a Synology DS 209. But I got a chance to play with Windows Home Server and since the NAS box will be behind the TV I thought maybe I can have a NAS + Media Player all in one machine. 1. The main idea is...
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