JohnK

Hullo. Right. I appear to have acquired an HP Micro N36L with 8 GB Ram and 2 X 1TB WD HDDs and 2 further unoccupied drive caddy's. I'd like advice on the best option to set it up. I plan to use it mainly as a photo archive plus a few MP4 rips of movies and home videos as MP4 and .mob format, all at no more than 1080 resolution, plus a bit of local archiving of instruction manuals and sundry domestic documents (pdf, word docs, Excel spreadsheets etc). I would access from Win10 PCs and Android phones, ideall with no special software, plus a Humax networked TV recorder box and an LG blu ray home cinema. I like the thought of RAID-ing the HDDs and plugging in a USB store once in a while as an off-machine backup, in case one HDD falls over (I'd also rather it told me the HDD had failed, as well). I would hope that in the event if failure I can plug in a new HDD and let the box get on with it. Hopefully I'll be booting off a USB drive (or possibly a SDcard). Management could be a local monitor and keyboard & mouse etc. but remote management from a suitable laptop (Win 10) is a nice sounding idea. What is the current thinking? Thanks all John