operating system helps protect against hard drive failures by ensuring that files stored in shared
folders are automatically duplicated to multiple hard drives.
Benefits
Benefits
Benefits
Benefits
Windows Home Server Drive Extender offers the following benefits for storage solutions:
Allows the seamless addition of more hard drives
Allows the seamless addition of more hard drives
Allows the seamless addition of more hard drives
Allows the seamless addition of more hard drives: As you add more hard drives, they are treated
as a single large pool of available storage space. You no longer need to deal with drive letters
(such as E:, F:, and G: ) because you can add more hard drives.
Works with internal and external hard drives
Works with internal and external hard drives
Works with internal and external hard drives
Works with internal and external hard drives: You can add internal or external (for example, USB
2.0 or FireWire) hard to increase the available storage.
Shared Folder Duplication
Shared Folder Duplication
Shared Folder Duplication
Shared Folder Duplication: Duplicating designated shared folders provides protection against
hard-drive failure by storing important data on separate hard drives. Duplication is configurable
for every shared folder-so a shared folder can have multiple copies with each copy stored on a
separate hard drive.
Makes hard drives and their content easy to move
Makes hard drives and their content easy to move
Makes hard drives and their content easy to move
Makes hard drives and their content easy to move: It is easy to remove outdated hard drives.
You can store the content on other hard drives in the system and remove old or small hard drives.
Windows Home Server Drive Extender is different than and more powerful than a redundant array of
Windows Home Server Drive Extender is different than and more powerful than a redundant array of
Windows Home Server Drive Extender is different than and more powerful than a redundant array of
Windows Home Server Drive Extender is different than and more powerful than a redundant array of
independent disks (RAID) in several ways
independent disks (RAID) in several ways
independent disks (RAID) in several ways
independent disks (RAID) in several ways:
You can use any hard drive, any time. You are not restricted to adding more hard drives of the
same type and size. When you want to grow your storage, you can buy and add any hard drive
you like.
Internal and external hard drives can be used to grow your storage.
Drive removal is easy. You can remove older, smaller hard drives and add new, larger hard drives
to upgrade your storage capacity.
Microsoft Restore
Microsoft Restore
Microsoft Restore
Microsoft Restore
Software
Software
Software
Software
The HP Data Vault provides bare metal backup and restore of up to 10 PC's and Mac's.
To restore individual items from a previous backup stored on the HP Data Vault, a virtual volume driver
is loaded on the computer. This allows a previous image of a hard drive to be mounted, as if it were a
read-only volume, across the network. This driver opens a connection to the Data Vault, and it receives
the relevant clusters from the device to build a virtual view into what a given hard drive looked like on a
given day. The read-only volume is displayed in Windows Explorer where a user can drag the files and
folders that they want to restore to the Windows Desktop of the computer they are using.
Important:
Important:
Important:
Important:
A computer that is behind your firewall and has the Windows Home Server Connector software installed
can create a backup without further authorization or authentication. However, restoring individual files
and folders and restoring computers using the Computer Restore CD requires the Windows Home Server
password.
QuickSpecs
HP X300 Data Vault
HP X300 Data Vault
HP X300 Data Vault
HP X300 Data Vault
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