Here is what I want to do: I want to make a server at my house(use my desktop to play this role since there is not going to be a lot of data transfer between server and all of families computers) the purpose of this server is to house 5 1TB HDD so that my family can store and back up thier movies, music, pictures, and what not. Now I have the server built and I want to know if it is possable to to do the following with it before I kick her into action.
1st being if I can set a password for each individual hard drive so that each person can have there own private section so noone else can mess with there stuff(also if it can be done erect a firewall between hdd so if one gets infected it wont spread, but I guess if it wants to its gonna spread since they are hooked up together.).
2nd being if it is possiable to have a 6th harddrive setup so that if lets say later on down the road they make a 2TB hdd and one of my family members wants that hdd all I have to do is back up their current hdd to the 6th hdd and put in the new hdd and run the backup to copy everything to the new hdd.
if some one can point me in the right direction so that I can get started on this that would be greatly appreciated.
I originally thought about building a seperate minitower and using ubuntu but I decided to save money and just upgrade my current desktop and use my current os windows xp profesional
also I am going to be using the desktop as a gaming computer at the same time as a server hopefuly it will work out fine
