I need a network storage solution

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piotrbentley

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i'm using a WD netcenter right now and having all sorts of trouble. i think i can recover the data but i really need to setup something with rock solid reliability in terms of connect and data protection.

I want the network storage to have 2 hard drives, one to duplicate the other so there is no chance of losing the data.

please help! thx -Peter
 
i'll chime in a little to get this started.

Yes, you can build a server using pretty much any parts you have lieing around.
If you dont have extra parts, a really basic dual core, and 2 gb of memory seems to be more than fine for most file servers. Most people on these boards seem satisfied with WHS for their OS.

Although you could also use unix and linux variants:
ubuntu
freebsd (freenas)
solaris

Doing an exact duplicate of a hard drive is called RAID 1 mirror, pretty much any motherboard these days should be able to do that. Raid 1 requires an even amount of drives (2, 4, 6). Because raid 1 is mirrored, you only have half the capacity of all your drives

There is also RAID 5, which requires 3 or more drives and uses one of the drives as a parity calculation. In this setup you can lose only one drive without losing data, but raid 5 only takes away one of the drive from your total capacity, instead of halfing it like raid1

None of the RAID's are considered true backup since any user error (not hardware error) will cause you to lose data anyways. But most people with home servers dont' really care about that.

I've heard there are some pretty good integrated network enclosure kits as well, so that you don't have to go through all the setup. But i'm not really familiar with those.
 
using WHS is better than windows xp pro for the server? What does full duplication mean?

What should i look for when buying a motherboard for the server?
 
Use the search function man... I hate to be that guy that doesn't help at all but these questions are really best answered by google and some forum searches. You're also not providing any details which could be used by us to help you. Looking at your previous posts all you did was ask people to tell you what to buy when you were doing a CPU upgrade. If thats what your looking for go call dell, HP or some other vendor and tell them your budget...
 
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