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Everything went quite well with the install. I learned a lot that's for sure. It's been running for some time now with not one hiccup. Thanks to everyone here for all the input and information.

I've been lurking for about a month now and soaking up a ton of info and after going back and forth with a few different options. Unraid, Freenas and so on and picked Unraid mostly for this forum. The people feel so helpful and the overall community is very vocal and that played such a huge part in it. My searching began with my Windows home server taking ill. It started with the file conflicts and shadow file errors ended me not wanting to risk any data loss and shutting it down. I don't have many bad things to say about Windows server, its been running for 5 years and restored more then one PC on my network and saved my data more then once, but I also know its a down hill struggle from here with it and didn't want to risk loss. So I shut it down and moved to data to a few usb drives that I had here and started reading. After a lot of bouncing around I ended up ordering the following. CPU: AMD A4-5300 Trinity 3.4GHz Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X-ITX FM2 AMD A85X RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Case: LIAN LI PC-Q25B PSU: PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 400W Modular Power Supply features 100% Japanese 105°C rated Capacitors Parity Drive: Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB Data Drive: Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB Data Drive: Western Digital Green WD10EADS 1TB (Old Drive) Data Drive: Western Digital Green WD7500AACS 750GB (Old Drive) Data Drive: Western Digital Caviar WD7500AAKS 750GB (Old Drive) From what I've read this should be a solid start. I'll be swapping the old drives out as needed for space or as they die. Mainly this will be used as a place to hold my RAW files and a backup for my Windows PCs. I still need to do some reading on the Windows backup part, but I'm sure I'll find what I need on these forums. I'm really green when it comes to the add-ons like couch potato and so on so I'll be starting with nothing but Unraid and as I learn more I might add some things on. One thing for sure I would like to do is set up an Unraid server at a off site location and sync that one to my one here for all the reasons that one would do it. Things will be showing up tomorrow and I hope to have it up and running by the weekend. So there it is. Thanks for all your input and support on these forums, guys. It makes a huge difference in what software people pick. Rob

I would be interested in this as well. I have a friend that lives about 40 miles away and it would be nice to have a backup off site of the more important files. I wouldn't need the sync both ways as much as some type of automated backup of only files that have changed. Anyone have anything like this running?