Low Footprint Media Server?

stoke1863 · 31 Mar 2016 at 13:06

Hi,

Im looking to buy a small Home server to hold my BR rips for either Kodi or Plex. At the moment i just have my rips on the main PC but im a bot tired of having to go turn it on all the time to stream stuff.

I have two spare 3.5 HDD's knocking about (2TB and 4TB) and 4GB DDR3 ram.

I need something that can be left on 24/7 and is quite compact so it needs to be low electricity cost, I also have a small budget but could build over time.

Would something like a Rabsery PI be ok? Or should i build something?

How about those HP Microservers?

Little_Crow · 31 Mar 2016 at 13:28

The HP Microservers are ideal for this use. I would say the Dell T20 is a far better deal right now, but could hardly be called 'compact' when compared to the Microserver.

egraphixstudios · 10 Apr 2016 at 14:43

I would go for HP micro servers as they have ilo for remote management and power on/off/reset etc.

ANDARIAL · 11 Apr 2016 at 14:12

HP micro servers
Cashback deal on atm Get one by the end of the month i think it runs out after

Craig321 · 11 Apr 2016 at 14:19

stoke1863 said:
Hi,

Im looking to buy a small Home server to hold my BR rips for either Kodi or Plex. At the moment i just have my rips on the main PC but im a bot tired of having to go turn it on all the time to stream stuff.

I have two spare 3.5 HDD's knocking about (2TB and 4TB) and 4GB DDR3 ram.

I need something that can be left on 24/7 and is quite compact so it needs to be low electricity cost, I also have a small budget but could build over time.

Would something like a Rabsery PI be ok? Or should i build something?

How about those HP Microservers?

It really depends what you want out of it and how much you want to spend.

The new Pi with an external drive attached would do a good job, but it'd mean you need to remember to copy your latest media to the Pi's drive.

I have an HP Microserver with FreeNAS installed which mainly serves my files but can do all the downloading etc. as well which is nice. I then have a Pi set up on the TV with Kodi which streams from the server. This means I can have the server tucked away where it's quiet rather than making a racket behind the TV.