Hi,
I am looking to build a home server to allow my movie collection (which i add to everyday) to be streamed to a variety of boxes around the house, including an atv2 an acer revo running xbmc and games consoles if possible.
Still being a student i have to work under some form of budget, so heres my spec:
Looking to run Ubuntu Server as WHS is no longer supported and Windows 8 with some features of WHS incorporated just doesnt appeal to me.
I'm not too sure on the case, im after something with 6+ 3.5 drive bays to cater for possible expansion as the mobo has 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors and 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors, but something around the £100 mark.
Heres where i need some extra help and knowledge
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1. Would a wake on lan network card be beneficial? Some of the build ive seen on the web have them. Would WOL allow me to remotely send files to be downloaded by the server?
2. Would it be beneficial to have the OS on SSD? or would that be an overkill? should i look to run it on a usb pen drive? or even a ide HDD? also would i need a backup of the OS file system?
3. Is it worth having RAID? If so do i go for 5,6 or 10? Im more concerned with being able to retrieve my movies after a disk failure rather than file corruption. Is it worth having say 4 HDD's, 2 of them are masters and are backed up to the remaining 2, eliminating the need for RAID altogether?
I'm also concerned with the possibility of another disk failing under pressure when rebuilding the array. But would i not experience this disk pressure when rebuilding from a backup? or could my backup disk become my master disk and i just add a new disk to become the new backup disk?
Also without using RAID would my HDDs would be seen as separate disks as opposed to one whole storage pool? Meaning that i would have to add several network file shares on each device?
Sorry for an incredibly long and possibly confusing post, any help would be much appreciated!
I am looking to build a home server to allow my movie collection (which i add to everyday) to be streamed to a variety of boxes around the house, including an atv2 an acer revo running xbmc and games consoles if possible.
Still being a student i have to work under some form of budget, so heres my spec:
- Intel Core i3 3220 Ivy Bridge Dual Core Processor £91
- Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Socket 1155 VGA DVI HDMI 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard £95
- Corsair Memory Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz CAS 9 XMP Dual Channel Desktop £30
- XFX P1-450S-X2B9 Pro Series Core Edition 450W Power Supply (PSU) £35
- 2/3/4 x Seagate 3TB Performance SATA 3 Hard Drive ST3000DM001 7200rpm with 64MB Cache SATA II Compatible £102 each
- Antec 1100 Eleven Hundred Case £90
Looking to run Ubuntu Server as WHS is no longer supported and Windows 8 with some features of WHS incorporated just doesnt appeal to me.
I'm not too sure on the case, im after something with 6+ 3.5 drive bays to cater for possible expansion as the mobo has 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors and 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors, but something around the £100 mark.
Heres where i need some extra help and knowledge
...1. Would a wake on lan network card be beneficial? Some of the build ive seen on the web have them. Would WOL allow me to remotely send files to be downloaded by the server?
2. Would it be beneficial to have the OS on SSD? or would that be an overkill? should i look to run it on a usb pen drive? or even a ide HDD? also would i need a backup of the OS file system?
3. Is it worth having RAID? If so do i go for 5,6 or 10? Im more concerned with being able to retrieve my movies after a disk failure rather than file corruption. Is it worth having say 4 HDD's, 2 of them are masters and are backed up to the remaining 2, eliminating the need for RAID altogether?
I'm also concerned with the possibility of another disk failing under pressure when rebuilding the array. But would i not experience this disk pressure when rebuilding from a backup? or could my backup disk become my master disk and i just add a new disk to become the new backup disk?
Also without using RAID would my HDDs would be seen as separate disks as opposed to one whole storage pool? Meaning that i would have to add several network file shares on each device?
Sorry for an incredibly long and possibly confusing post, any help would be much appreciated!
