I re-installed WHS 2011 this past weekend and I'm looking for a better way to back-up my storage. Up until this point, I've used WHS built-in back-up feature. I want a way to have everything working with redundancy and have a raid 1 mirror of a 2TB hard drive to back up to a disk that I can keep off site at my In-Laws safe with family videos and family pics. i would back up all clients and the ystem OS using the built in windows backup to external usb disk using the dashboard.
I don't want to buy any more hard drives at the moment.
This is what I have for storage now:
260GB 2.5" for OS and I have a back up 260 GB disk too.
3 1TB disks, was going to take one and put in the HTPC for extra ceton recording space.
5 2TB Hard drives....5900 RPM
1 3TB Hard drive ......intellispeed (5900rpm)
1 320GB Hard Drive
These are the options I am considering. What do you think I should pick?
1. Build a NAS with extra memory, processors, and 4 1 TB Hard drives using FreeNas or another NAS that would have ISCSI for easy transfer through the network
2. FlexRaid?
3. Buy a Buffalo LInkstation 2 Bay and Stablebit Drivepool
4. Stablebit Drivepool....seems to be very successful based on the reading the forums exhaustively.
5. IOCELL 2 bay NDS with Stablebit Drivepool