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Windows Home Server 2011 did the trick!
Installed it last night on a brand new 220 gig SSD, got my user accounts set up, and the four 2.7 terabyte spinning rust units configured as a RAID5 storage drive, 8.8 terabytes effective capacity. WHS 2011 won't do RAID10 by the look of it but that's okay.
Thankfully those discs didn't have anything on them Then I hooked up my 4 terabyte and 6 terabyte external RAID10 drives with all my music and movies on, and Robert's your father's brother I'm in business. I can now access the files from ant PC in the house.
Crazy to think when I started messing with Pcs 30 years ago a 40 MEGAbyte hard disk was considered "big" and now I have a server in my home with 17 TERAbytes!
Thanks for all your help chaps but in the end the Server software was the way to go for me at least. |
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