Decided to change my operating system on my server
sick of windoze home server 2011 and apparently a change is as good as a holiday. . . . . . . . .
downloaded FreeNAS cos it came as highly recommended, and as the name suggests, it's free
installed on a spare SSD and chucked a couple of HDD's in for a test run
Operating system install: check
set up web user interface: check
format HDD's: check
access HDD's in web user interface: check
transfer files to HDD: