And i was wondering what i would be needing for it..... It will be a general usage with tasks ranging from Backups for 3 computers (2 desktop 1 laptop) to being head honcho of my small render farm of 21 small dual core PC's and running Local Lan for games etc.
Looking to either make or buy a Home server
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If it were only for the former then id say there would be no point in buying a server, just build one, however if you are planning the latter and using in conjunction with 21 small dual core PC's and running a local lan as a gaming server then maybe something a little more higher specced would be better.
However someone else might comment, a decent specced PC might suffice for a home server for your needs.
However someone else might comment, a decent specced PC might suffice for a home server for your needs.
You could probably get away with a built system as long as you focused on getting good disk performance - eg dedicated RAID card.
Servers tend to focus on disk performance, high availability and management. If the latter is not an issue for you a properly specced 'desktop' is more than sufficient for many 'server' tasks and often better than a lot of the cheapo desktop servers you can pick up these days.
Servers tend to focus on disk performance, high availability and management. If the latter is not an issue for you a properly specced 'desktop' is more than sufficient for many 'server' tasks and often better than a lot of the cheapo desktop servers you can pick up these days.
What sort of stuff do you think i should be looking at?
Purely as a Home Server (Windows Home Server) I have an Asus K8N with a Sempron 2100, 1.5Gb ram and some SI3114 PCI SATA cards. Lots of different size hard disks in the WHS pool, folder duplication enabled etc. Works fine, backs up my PC and Laptop automagically. I have also installed a plugin that then backs up to a USB attached 1.5TB disk for offsite storage.