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now that I've already covered in a separate video how to set up the user accounts on windows home server as well as I have covered how to configure computer backups computer backups are probably one of the biggest killer features of elm server let's talk about the next killer feature of home server the shared folders and what all of that means so there are several ways to access the shared folders you can either access them through the regular network PC navigation so you just go onto TS mini and then you can browse all the folders available on the home server there the setup wizard also creates a shortcut on your desktop to your shared folders on the windows home server and then the last most common way is to access it through the icon in the bottom right so you just click shared folders so once that's open you can go ahead and browse all the full all the folders that are automatically created by home server and find your way into the user folder so I'm in the Linus folder where right now there is nothing but I'm going to go ahead and show off the speed of windows home server now bearing in mind that home server is running on a feeble atom processor so this isn't exactly a speed demon computer here home server does not need a whole lot of resources to run wicked fast for file serving so you can sustain about 80 70 to 80 megabytes per second with large files so i just copied how much is this 467 Meg's to my home server in just a couple seconds there which is a pretty nice feature so let's do another 360 bags and yeah so that took about four or five seconds which is terrific but that's not all but wait there's more right here you can see I have duplication enabled for the Linus folder so what duplication means I'm going to go ahead and go into properties here so here we go here is the name of the Linus folder the description for the lioness folder and enable folder duplication I have two hard drives right now in my windows home server if I go into the server storage I can see right here I have two identical 500 gig drives and what duplication is you can see right here the shared folders are 137 Meg's and duplications 137 Meg's what it does is it takes everything in a duplication enabled folder and make sure that it is always on at least two physical drives within the home server that means that if one of my drives dies or is removed or is struck by lightning or whatever happens my data will be safe now that doesn't mean that home server is completely immune to things like virus infected files it's not going to fix problems that you caused but if you are in danger of a physical failure causing you to lose your data windows home server will protect you in ninety nine percent of cases now the duplication is not a hardware RAID solution it is more like a software raid solution so that means it is not real time but it's fairly close to real time that actually had several drives died in my home server which I have about six hard drives in right now and I have never lost an important piece of data that means I've never lost any data in one of my duplicated folders now I did set certain things like the public folder to not be duplicated and I have lost files from there but I don't care about those files so that is the other huge huge feature of windows home server you can also add other folders like you could say oh no I'm in users whoops you can add folders like let's say this is the expendable folder okay I'm not going to enable folder duplication because I don't care about this data I can configure it so that any guest has full access and Linus has full access to this folder so this is just going to be some random folder that means that the data in the expendable folder will not take up double the space because every magg i right to Linus is going to be actually written to megs to two separate drives expendable will only write one meg 21 drive so it means it takes up less space but it's also less safe thank you for checking out my video on Windows Home Server shared folder and duplication features