ASUS TS Mini Shared Folders Server Storage & Duplication Explanation Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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now that I've already covered in a separate video how to set up the user
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accounts on Windows Home Server as well as I have covered how to configure
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computer backups computer backups are probably one of the biggest killer
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features of a Home Server let's talk about the next killer feature of Home
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Server the shared folders and what all of that means so there are several ways
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to access the shared folders you can either access them through the regular
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Network um PC navigation so you just go
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on to TS mini and then you can browse all the folders available on the Home
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Server there uh the setup wizard also creates a shortcut on your desktop to
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your shared folders on the Windows Home Server and then the last uh most common
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way is to access it through the uh icon
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in the bottom right so you just click shared folder so once that's open you
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can go ahead and browse all the F all the folders that are automatically
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created by Home Server and find your way into the user folder so I'm in the Linus
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folder where right now there is nothing but I'm going to go ahead and show off
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the speed of Windows Home Server now bearing in mind that Home Server is
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running on a a feeble Atom Processor so this isn't
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exactly a speed demon computer here Home
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Server does not need a whole lot of resources to run wicked fast for file
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serving so you can sustain about 80 70 to 80 megabytes per second with large
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files so I just copied how much is this
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467 Megs to my home server and just a couple seconds there which is a pretty
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nice feature so let's do another 360
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Megs and uh yeah so that took about four
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or five seconds which is terrific but
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that's not all but wait there's more
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right here you can see I have duplication enabled for the lonus
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folder so what duplication means I'm going to go ahead and go into properties
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here so here we go here is the name of
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the Linus folder the description for the Linus folder and enable folder
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duplication I have two hard drives right now in my Windows Home Server if I go
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into the server storage I can see right here I have two identical 500 gig drives
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and what duplication does is you can see right here the shared folders are 137
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Megs and duplication is 137 Megs what it
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does is it takes everything in a duplication enabled folder and make sure
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that it is always on at least two
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physical drives within the Home Server that means that if one of my drives dies
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or is removed or is struck by lightning or whatever happens my data will be safe
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now that doesn't mean that Home Server is completely immune to things like
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virus infected files it's not going to fix problems that you cause but if you
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are in danger of a physical failure
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causing you to lose your data Windows Home Server will protect you in 99% of
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cases now the duplication is not a hardware r solution it is more like a
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software raid solution so that means it is not real time but it's fairly close
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to real time I've actually had several drives die in my Home Server which I
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have about six hard drives in right now and I have never lost an important piece
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of data that means I've never lost any data in one of my duplicated folders now
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I did set certain things like the public folder to not be duplicated and I have
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lost files from there but I don't care about those files so that is the other
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huge huge feature of Windows Home Server you can also add other folders like you
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could say uh oh no I'm in users whoops you can add folders like uh let's say
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this is the Expendable
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folder okay I'm not going to enable folder duplication because I don't care
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about this data I can configure it so that any guest has full access and Linus
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has full access to this folder so this is just going to be some random folder
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that means that the data in the Expendable folder will not take up
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double the space because every Meg I write to Linus is going to be actually
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written two Megs to two separate drives
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Expendable will only write one Meg to one drive so it means it takes up less
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space but it's also less safe thank you for checking out my video on Windows
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Home servers shared folder and
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duplication features