WHS in a Shuttle?

[PoorBehavior]

I was considering a Synology NAS for $199 or so and my research kept pointing to WHS.
The easiest solution technically and the smallest as well would be to take my mostly unused backup system, a Shuttle SN25P and throw in one or two 1TB drives.

My intent is to backup specific items off of my main rig and my MacbookPro, be able to access the data remotely and as standard network storage. I don't plan on using it to stream media. WHS fits the bill and I don't think I will need a system that can handle ten drives. Will the Shuttle cause me any problems?

Am I being short sighted? If I decide I want to expand the array (not sure if that is the correct terminology here), can't I just pull the drives and put it all in a larger system or is it more complicated than that?

Thanks

 

[Dangman]

The Shuttle shouldn't cause any problems outside of normal hardware failure.

As far as taking the drives out and putting it into another WHS setup, not too sure about that. Don't think it's that simple.

since you should still have a free PCI-E x1 slot, you could always get one of these eSATA storage boxes that comes with a PCI-E x1 eSATA card:
$150 - Sans Digital TR4M 4 Bay SATA to eSATA (Port Multiplier) JBOD Enclosure

That way, you can have four additional hard drives in a small enclosure

 

[Greatone123]

as is, it will work fine.

the down the road part could be a little annoying. The data drives can't just be migrated... WHS requires them to be formated to go into the pool.

BUT!

if you plan on expanding to a new system and already have other drives to add as well, add them to the pool first then copy files from current drives and add accordingly that's what I did.