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I have the following:
-Rosewill REDBONE U3 Black SECC Steel USB 3.0, eSATA, 3x 120mm Fans Mid Tower Computer Case
-Intel Core i5-4440 Haswell Quad-Core 3.1GHz
-GIGABYTE GA-Z87-DS3H LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
--Rosewill ARC 550 Continuous 550W@40 C degree 80Plus Bronze Certified
-HyperX Fury Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866
-ASUS 24X DVD Burner
I want to have a system to backup a few laptops, use for storage to stream in home network and outside of it.
I will have a small ssd for the operating system and purchase 3 3TB hd's
If I use two for storage and one for backups should I use two WD red and one green or Seagate barracuda?
I do not know if I should use WHS. freenas or something like Amahi
Any direction would be appreciated
 
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It depends on what you want. If all you want is to access a shared network folder, then Windows 7 or 8 will work just fine. If you want something more sophisticated, like an iSCSI initiator or NFS file share, it is harder to do with Windows 7/8 than with a dedicated NAS device, but not impossible. The performance will proably be better using Windows 7 or 8 than a dedicated NAS, unless you want to spend more than $800 on a NAS.
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If you're going to buy 3x 3TB hard drives, I'd just put all 3 into a RAID 5 volume and store data and backups there, but you may have some reason why this isn't desireable. Whatever you decide to do, I'd buy the same 3 hard drives rather than mix and match. It will work better down the road if you decide that the current setup isn't right.

As far as the OS goes, it largely depends on what other use you want to make from the computer. Windows 7/8 make perfectly fine file servers as long as you've got fewer than 20 machines connecting to them.

--Russel
 
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I had wanted to backup the laptops for to re-install mirror if one fails. Did not realize that Windows 7 will work as file server. I can search for a tutorial on that, would that work similar to a nas?
 
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It depends on what you want. If all you want is to access a shared network folder, then Windows 7 or 8 will work just fine. If you want something more sophisticated, like an iSCSI initiator or NFS file share, it is harder to do with Windows 7/8 than with a dedicated NAS device, but not impossible. The performance will proably be better using Windows 7 or 8 than a dedicated NAS, unless you want to spend more than $800 on a NAS.
 
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Thanks Rusabus, my brother gave me an early copy of WHS and I think that will do what I would like to do. Would hard drives such as Seagate barracuda be fine or should I think more like WD red or Seagate nas?
 
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