OK, I need to revisit this idea. Here is what I want. I want a machine to do frequent backups of all my computers in the house and also be a central storage area for all of our media (to be accessed by any computer). I would like the backups and media carbon copied on (at least) two different HDDs in case one fails. I am thinking WHS2011 will do all of this for me? I'm thinkin 3 1tb seagate drives with an i3 processor and 8gig ram should be plenty sufficient? any other recommendations?
For a backup server you can use some recycled machine. You'd waste your money investing to that hardware!
Just set up a linux fileserver on raid 10 and use a backup script to handle backups. The most cost-effective solution (and what I would do) is to get a dedicated NAS device, with that you can have your network storage for around 400 euros.
What were you thinking to use for backups? You cannot backup anything to the same machine unless it's a eSata harddrive or something separate from the computer.
