Anyone having a home file server? share your experiences

lay-z-boy · 7 Jan 2007 at 21:26

sja360 said:
that surely cant be just for home use, you must be running some sort of business with that amount of storage?

Either that or he has one huge stash of pr0n.

FatRakoon · 7 Jan 2007 at 21:46

Probably the latter... Or BS!

Nomisf · 7 Jan 2007 at 22:18

lol, ^ thats an insane amount of computer power.

Perosnally i have 2x Compaq DeskproEN workstations:
1Ghz - 384Mb PC133 - 10Gb Maxtor IDE Drives
And one has 76Gb of SCSI storage over 5 drives ( but because its so small they are mounted externally )

They run Server 2k3 Standard, one does the internal domain and VPN - and essential files, the other is outward facing running a website SQL and a backup DNS. They also share game servers between them sometimes, they are suprisingly capable little machines.

Wouldnt change my setup, but on the other hand i have a mate who has a Compaq Proliant 4U rackserver in his shed. Which i consider madness.

Rgds,
Nomisf

Cyber-Mav · 8 Jan 2007 at 01:27

markyb said:
Any decent FTP program will work.

Im using ServeFTP, about £25. There is a 30 day trial of it on there site here

same software i use.

Cyber-Mav · 8 Jan 2007 at 01:28

Dark_Angel said:
Maxtor and Ultra Reliable? I never thought I would see that!

old maxtor drives were very good. but as soon as they started to pull out the sata drives, it was around the same time that maxtors reliability rate tumbled.

Justintime · 8 Jan 2007 at 02:13

Dual athlon 1600+ cpus, its got 4 73GB 10k cheetahs, 1 15k 18Gb cheetah, 1 36Gb Cheetah, 2 64 Bit SCSI cards, Radeon 9000 AGP, 1.5GB DDR PC2100, 2 SATA PCI controllers, 4 500gb hdds amd 2 400GB Spinpoint IDE drives. adding a 750Gb Seagate SATA when it arrives, might add a few more hard drives as i'm replacing the 520W Enermax with a 700W FSP when that arrives

lay-z-boy · 8 Jan 2007 at 02:50

Another pr0n baron i see

naro · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:10

markyb said:
Any decent FTP program will work.

Im using ServeFTP, about £25. There is a 30 day trial of it on there site here

i'm a poor student, so i think i'll stick to the free Filezilla

Cyber-Mav · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:17

naro said:
i'm a poor student, so i think i'll stick to the free Filezilla

ehh? why you email me asking for a keygen then? :confused:

sja360 · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:22

naro said:
i'm a poor student, so i think i'll stick to the free Filezilla

Cyber-Mav said:
ehh? why you email me asking for a keygen then?

OWNED naro!

naro · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:23

afraser2k said:
I'm using:

Case: Chyang Fun 7989CM (came with 200w PSU iirc)
Motherboard: Epia M6000
CPU: Built-in VIA Eden 600MHz (fanless)
RAM: 1x512Mb PC2700 Crucial DDR
HDD: 1x120Gb Western Digital (IDE)
FDD: 1.44Mb Sony
Opt: NEC ND3500A DVD+RW (IDE)
O/S: Debian Sarge 3.1 (2.4.x kernel)

Due to the nature of the Epia M6000 I use the on-board network/sound/video as it's only doing file server duties. I run DNS/Samba/LAMP/SSH and streaming audio through GNUmp3d, which I hope to test tomorrow to see if I can listen to my music from work. I've run a Ventrilo server for a few friends off it with some success as well. The system is pretty much silent with only slight sound from hard disk access or the cases power supply fan. Might look into making it completely silent with a new case/external brick.

I'd hate to think about the cost of running these servers 24/7 though.

this mini-ITX mobo with a VIA cpu should not be using a lot of power. Furthermore, you're using onboard gfx. So i don't think its gonna use up a lot of power.

naro · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:23

Cyber-Mav said:
ehh? why you email me asking for a keygen then?

huh?? i din e-mail anyone..

naro · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:25

lay-z-boy said:
House aerial lead > ati theater 550pro tv tuner > pci slot

It came with some included proprietary software software that allows you to broadcast the set channel or allow users to tune in and change the channel.
Windows media encoder can do the same sort of thing but with more latency and preset channel watching only.

ATI Theatre chips are cool!!! I wonder if the Hauppage HVR's can do that..

naro · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:27

the_chicco said:
My file server is actually a Virtual Machine with Windows 2003 Enterprise R2. It's serving about 3TB of files. I'm using VMware ESX 3 running on Dual Opteron 275's, 16GB of Ram, 10TB of disk space.

This ESX box also houses my DC's, Exchange, BES, Sharepoint, etc.

OMFG!!!

your server must have cost a bomb!!

sja360 · 8 Jan 2007 at 03:36

unless im mistaken 4 posts in a row abit much you could have just quoted each person in 1 post.. unless someone's trying hard to get there post count up

afraser2k · 8 Jan 2007 at 09:09

naro said:
this mini-ITX mobo with a VIA cpu should not be using a lot of power. Furthermore, you're using onboard gfx. So i don't think its gonna use up a lot of power.

I know, the 200w was off the top of my head it's actually something like 120w PSU. I'd be able to run all that on a 60w external brick I have if I removed the USB keyboard/mouse but I use a KVM switch as well so can't be bothered at the moment to mess about with it.