Looking for feedback, opinions or best yet, personal experience regarding these two:
2011 is much cheaper, allows for less clients (ten, which is more than enough), and support ends on 4/12/2016 with no extended support.
2012 Essentials is significantly more expensive, will handle up to 50 clients (overkill for me) but mainstream support doesn't end until 1/9/2018 with extended support ending on 1/10/2023.
Features I'm ultimately interested in are:
duplicating drives
drive pooling
automated backups of PCs on the network:
-- W7 and W8.1; OS X would be nice butnot a deal breaker
remote access to files
VPN access
web server
general file sharing
ability to backup specific folders (local to the server) to online remote location
Thoughts?
If it matters, I'm looking to replace our current HP WHS v1 system; it's failing and I might be able to fix it or might not; in either case, it's EOL'd by both HP and Microsoft. If repairing it goes south, I want Plan B in place ;) I have hardware picked out which will work either OS above.
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