Hey all I'll try to keep it short and sweet
The premise
Three Users with gaming desktops who use voip, play online and also have their own content creation and AV libraries. We currently have no working backup solution, are all running out of storage space and my rig the most powerful and defacto hosts servers depending on needs (Mumble, SpaceEngineers, minecraft, read any dedicated multiplayer popular game we want to play)
The Use Case
Primary reason is for storage, I want to have
A) Full system backups for our desktops with snapshots/shadowcopy for individual point in time backup
B) External backed up storage - shift the collections of AV from family and three users to one central location for streaming to tv/tab/ect
Redundancy is not an issue as all are tech enough swap the drives in software or hardware but potential for accidental virus is there (ahem sister) so a BACKUP solution for the AV data
C) Potential to host a mumble serve, space engineers server, mine craft server, these kinds of things in the less than 8 user department.
I stress that if C wildly changes the solutions that fit A and B nicely (aka changing to full new OS instead of freenas/similar) then forget C, after this...NAS/FTP/PLEX server thing is built next upgrade is... my rig, so old rig becomes new server/capture box
The Brass Tax
I have no idea what CPU + MOBO + RAM to get, power req ect. I know I will need many many Drives (think I can get 9 in this case using 5.25 bay adpators and ditching the dvd drive) since my experience is building Gaming rigs with OC components for performance just want guidance on the build.
Ideally two kinda price ranges, one lower cost that I imagine can do the basic file storage and backup, the disks will out weigh the cost of the system no doubt, one higher that could potentially host the kinda servers I mentioned,
Budget for system can be up to £1000 but think thats beyond requirements
If you want a aim say £600 for the data solution that can stream to 3 devices 1080p
TL: DR Spec me a home FreeNAS build that can stream 1080p
Spec me a home server that can host mumble, space engineers, dedicated game servers £1000
The premise
Three Users with gaming desktops who use voip, play online and also have their own content creation and AV libraries. We currently have no working backup solution, are all running out of storage space and my rig the most powerful and defacto hosts servers depending on needs (Mumble, SpaceEngineers, minecraft, read any dedicated multiplayer popular game we want to play)
The Use Case
Primary reason is for storage, I want to have
A) Full system backups for our desktops with snapshots/shadowcopy for individual point in time backup
B) External backed up storage - shift the collections of AV from family and three users to one central location for streaming to tv/tab/ect
Redundancy is not an issue as all are tech enough swap the drives in software or hardware but potential for accidental virus is there (ahem sister) so a BACKUP solution for the AV data
C) Potential to host a mumble serve, space engineers server, mine craft server, these kinds of things in the less than 8 user department.
I stress that if C wildly changes the solutions that fit A and B nicely (aka changing to full new OS instead of freenas/similar) then forget C, after this...NAS/FTP/PLEX server thing is built next upgrade is... my rig, so old rig becomes new server/capture box
The Brass Tax
I have no idea what CPU + MOBO + RAM to get, power req ect. I know I will need many many Drives (think I can get 9 in this case using 5.25 bay adpators and ditching the dvd drive) since my experience is building Gaming rigs with OC components for performance just want guidance on the build.
Ideally two kinda price ranges, one lower cost that I imagine can do the basic file storage and backup, the disks will out weigh the cost of the system no doubt, one higher that could potentially host the kinda servers I mentioned,
Budget for system can be up to £1000 but think thats beyond requirements
If you want a aim say £600 for the data solution that can stream to 3 devices 1080p
TL: DR Spec me a home FreeNAS build that can stream 1080p
Spec me a home server that can host mumble, space engineers, dedicated game servers £1000
. Sounds like I should get ECC ram, no idea what is good, is xeon required for ECC? If so which should I go for or can I get a 1150 from OCuk and use the server board and ECC ram?