1 00:00:00,359 --> 00:00:06,520 now that I've already covered in a separate video how to set up the user 2 00:00:03,719 --> 00:00:11,040 accounts on Windows Home Server as well as I have covered how to configure 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:14,519 computer backups computer backups are probably one of the biggest killer 4 00:00:12,679 --> 00:00:18,760 features of a Home Server let's talk about the next killer feature of Home 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:22,080 Server the shared folders and what all of that means so there are several ways 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:27,480 to access the shared folders you can either access them through the regular 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,080 Network um PC navigation so you just go 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:32,640 on to TS mini and then you can browse all the folders available on the Home 9 00:00:30,519 --> 00:00:36,760 Server there uh the setup wizard also creates a shortcut on your desktop to 10 00:00:35,079 --> 00:00:43,120 your shared folders on the Windows Home Server and then the last uh most common 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:44,399 way is to access it through the uh icon 12 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:49,280 in the bottom right so you just click shared folder so once that's open you 13 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:53,480 can go ahead and browse all the F all the folders that are automatically 14 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:57,760 created by Home Server and find your way into the user folder so I'm in the Linus 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:02,879 folder where right now there is nothing but I'm going to go ahead and show off 16 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:08,000 the speed of Windows Home Server now bearing in mind that Home Server is 17 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:13,920 running on a a feeble Atom Processor so this isn't 18 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,439 exactly a speed demon computer here Home 19 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:21,040 Server does not need a whole lot of resources to run wicked fast for file 20 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:27,000 serving so you can sustain about 80 70 to 80 megabytes per second with large 21 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:29,920 files so I just copied how much is this 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:35,720 467 Megs to my home server and just a couple seconds there which is a pretty 23 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:39,960 nice feature so let's do another 360 24 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:43,320 Megs and uh yeah so that took about four 25 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:46,439 or five seconds which is terrific but 26 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:48,040 that's not all but wait there's more 27 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:53,640 right here you can see I have duplication enabled for the lonus 28 00:01:51,119 --> 00:01:58,520 folder so what duplication means I'm going to go ahead and go into properties 29 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:00,119 here so here we go here is the name of 30 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:04,240 the Linus folder the description for the Linus folder and enable folder 31 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,719 duplication I have two hard drives right now in my Windows Home Server if I go 32 00:02:06,039 --> 00:02:13,360 into the server storage I can see right here I have two identical 500 gig drives 33 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:19,760 and what duplication does is you can see right here the shared folders are 137 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,920 Megs and duplication is 137 Megs what it 35 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:29,840 does is it takes everything in a duplication enabled folder and make sure 36 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:31,640 that it is always on at least two 37 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:35,920 physical drives within the Home Server that means that if one of my drives dies 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:40,800 or is removed or is struck by lightning or whatever happens my data will be safe 39 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:44,800 now that doesn't mean that Home Server is completely immune to things like 40 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:52,000 virus infected files it's not going to fix problems that you cause but if you 41 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,800 are in danger of a physical failure 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:59,120 causing you to lose your data Windows Home Server will protect you in 99% of 43 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:03,319 cases now the duplication is not a hardware r solution it is more like a 44 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:08,040 software raid solution so that means it is not real time but it's fairly close 45 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:12,560 to real time I've actually had several drives die in my Home Server which I 46 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:17,040 have about six hard drives in right now and I have never lost an important piece 47 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:21,280 of data that means I've never lost any data in one of my duplicated folders now 48 00:03:19,519 --> 00:03:25,000 I did set certain things like the public folder to not be duplicated and I have 49 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:31,120 lost files from there but I don't care about those files so that is the other 50 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:35,439 huge huge feature of Windows Home Server you can also add other folders like you 51 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:41,519 could say uh oh no I'm in users whoops you can add folders like uh let's say 52 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:41,519 this is the Expendable 53 00:03:42,519 --> 00:03:48,640 folder okay I'm not going to enable folder duplication because I don't care 54 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:53,360 about this data I can configure it so that any guest has full access and Linus 55 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,720 has full access to this folder so this is just going to be some random folder 56 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:00,959 that means that the data in the Expendable folder will not take up 57 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:06,159 double the space because every Meg I write to Linus is going to be actually 58 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:08,400 written two Megs to two separate drives 59 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:13,480 Expendable will only write one Meg to one drive so it means it takes up less 60 00:04:10,799 --> 00:04:18,479 space but it's also less safe thank you for checking out my video on Windows 61 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:22,239 Home servers shared folder and 62 00:04:18,479 --> 00:04:22,239 duplication features