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Thatnks for the reply. What about schoondoggy's hard drive kit? Does it work? Is it worth installing this kit? So any ideas then about the usable free space if i have 2tb 2.5 drive and four 3tb drives using synology hybrid raid? Lastly is it worth buying WD Red's NAS HDD's or will normals HD's suffice? Thanks

Hi all, This is a great forum! Im thinking of buying a HP Microserver Gen 8 and installing XPEnology on it. But i have some questions: 1. What are the maximum number of physical hard drives i can install 2. If to start off with i use four 3tb drives and one 300Gb (2.5 inch boot drive) and use SHR how much usuable storage will i have? 3. Is the server quick enough to stream 1080p (max 2 clients at any one time) Many thanks