WEBVTT 00:00:00.359 --> 00:00:06.520 now that I've already covered in a separate video how to set up the user 00:00:03.719 --> 00:00:11.040 accounts on Windows Home Server as well as I have covered how to configure 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:14.519 computer backups computer backups are probably one of the biggest killer 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:18.760 features of a Home Server let's talk about the next killer feature of Home 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:22.080 Server the shared folders and what all of that means so there are several ways 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:27.480 to access the shared folders you can either access them through the regular 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:29.080 Network um PC navigation so you just go 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:32.640 on to TS mini and then you can browse all the folders available on the Home 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:36.760 Server there uh the setup wizard also creates a shortcut on your desktop to 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:43.120 your shared folders on the Windows Home Server and then the last uh most common 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:44.399 way is to access it through the uh icon 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:49.280 in the bottom right so you just click shared folder so once that's open you 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:53.480 can go ahead and browse all the F all the folders that are automatically 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 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 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:08.000 the speed of Windows Home Server now bearing in mind that Home Server is 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:13.920 running on a a feeble Atom Processor so this isn't 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:15.439 exactly a speed demon computer here Home 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:21.040 Server does not need a whole lot of resources to run wicked fast for file 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:27.000 serving so you can sustain about 80 70 to 80 megabytes per second with large 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:29.920 files so I just copied how much is this 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:35.720 467 Megs to my home server and just a couple seconds there which is a pretty 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:39.960 nice feature so let's do another 360 00:01:35.720 --> 00:01:43.320 Megs and uh yeah so that took about four 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:46.439 or five seconds which is terrific but 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:48.040 that's not all but wait there's more 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:53.640 right here you can see I have duplication enabled for the lonus 00:01:51.119 --> 00:01:58.520 folder so what duplication means I'm going to go ahead and go into properties 00:01:55.320 --> 00:02:00.119 here so here we go here is the name of 00:01:58.520 --> 00:02:04.240 the Linus folder the description for the Linus folder and enable folder 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.719 duplication I have two hard drives right now in my Windows Home Server if I go 00:02:06.039 --> 00:02:13.360 into the server storage I can see right here I have two identical 500 gig drives 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:19.760 and what duplication does is you can see right here the shared folders are 137 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.920 Megs and duplication is 137 Megs what it 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:29.840 does is it takes everything in a duplication enabled folder and make sure 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:31.640 that it is always on at least two 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:35.920 physical drives within the Home Server that means that if one of my drives dies 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:40.800 or is removed or is struck by lightning or whatever happens my data will be safe 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.800 now that doesn't mean that Home Server is completely immune to things like 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:52.000 virus infected files it's not going to fix problems that you cause but if you 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:53.800 are in danger of a physical failure 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:59.120 causing you to lose your data Windows Home Server will protect you in 99% of 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:03.319 cases now the duplication is not a hardware r solution it is more like a 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:08.040 software raid solution so that means it is not real time but it's fairly close 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:12.560 to real time I've actually had several drives die in my Home Server which I 00:03:10.200 --> 00:03:17.040 have about six hard drives in right now and I have never lost an important piece 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 00:03:19.519 --> 00:03:25.000 I did set certain things like the public folder to not be duplicated and I have 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 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:35.439 huge huge feature of Windows Home Server you can also add other folders like you 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 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:41.519 this is the Expendable 00:03:42.519 --> 00:03:48.640 folder okay I'm not going to enable folder duplication because I don't care 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:53.360 about this data I can configure it so that any guest has full access and Linus 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:56.720 has full access to this folder so this is just going to be some random folder 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:00.959 that means that the data in the Expendable folder will not take up 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:06.159 double the space because every Meg I write to Linus is going to be actually 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:08.400 written two Megs to two separate drives 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:13.480 Expendable will only write one Meg to one drive so it means it takes up less 00:04:10.799 --> 00:04:18.479 space but it's also less safe thank you for checking out my video on Windows 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:22.239 Home servers shared folder and 00:04:18.479 --> 00:04:22.239 duplication features