Just go to ebay, and look for proper NAS or home server. Preferably with 4 bays. You need something on good (for NAS) CPU, ala double core Atoms or similar things, not cheap ARM stuff.

@tinbeo

I do not understand that you need exactly and how it relates to this topic.

If you need some way to acess your file on server view internet, as I know all of modern home servers and NAS can do it.

Any other gear with similar functionality (and why not, price) that you would recommend?

Cheetahdeals no longer have the servers in stock..

That dealer has some other good deals too, I think I'll get this: http://www.cheetahdeals.com/Acer-AT3265-Refurbished-HDTV-p/l-ev.ma40c.001.htm

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

I've looked and never found a WHS option that allows you to schedule the automatic backup for something other than once every day. Any links on how to do this?

I've been a user user and evangelist of Windows Homeserver since it's very first beta release years ago. WHS 2011 (Vail) did make things a bit painful for a while, due to the removal of Drive Extender. But, I got over it, and I'm now running two RAID arrays (RAID 1 and RAID 0) and can still sleep at night :-)

WHS offers blistering speeds for NAS, and includes lots of nice features above and beyond most common storage solutions. You can even build your own, as I have, giving you complete control over the disks you add and hardware you use - which usually means less $$$.

There are some 3rd party drive extender utilities that have popped up that might be worth considering too. Its only real competitor is Drobo, which is worth a look, if not quite a bit more expensive.

@stip
You don't plug in portable disks or cards into the box. It is a headless network server. It will automatically backup any PC or Mac you register with it on a daily basis. In addition, you can access its shared volumes over a wifi network and set it up for remote internet logon if desired.

That's actually a great deal with the 2TB disc included considering rising storage prices.

Do you know if it can copy data in a 'plug and play' style, meaning no PC or other visual interface needed?

@fatpig

If you read carefully, you'll find how to ship to Germany.

This is a really good deal for a headless networked backup server that runs on the classic 32-bit version of Windows Home Server. The current 64-bit version of WHS does no longer supports two of the previous version's exclusive features:

* Virtualization of multiple hard disks of varying capacities into a single virtual drive volume.
* User ability to designate individual folders for transparent mirroring on separate physical drives.

These two features make it both practical and reliable to dispense with driver-level RAID mirroring. You can plug-in hard disks of any size with no need to match physical drive capacities. Windows Home Server will automatically combine them all into a single virtual drive volume, but retain the ability to transparently mirror designated folders for duplicated storage on separate hard disks for fail-safe backup retrieval in the event one of the drives fails.

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