Quick Windows Home server spec check please

Syphon

Syphon

Syphon

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  • Antec NSK1380 Black/Silver MATX Cube Case - With 350W PSU
  • AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 LE-1640 (2.6GHz) Energy Efficient L2 1MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
  • Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 690V Socket AM2 Onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard
  • Kingston 1GB DDR2 667MHz / PC2-5300 MEMORY CL5 1.8V NON ECC UNBUFFERED
  • Microsoft Windows Home Server - Licence and media - 1 server, 10 CALs - OEM - CD/DVD - English
  • Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM Green Power

Above comes to £331 delivered. Anything I've missed? Seem future proof enough?

I will be adding an additional hard drive to the same specification when the power pack is released fixing the duplication bug.

Cheers.
 
If you want a cube case, I suggest the Ocuk cube case - 1 more HD space and 500W supply.

Or it's cheaper with an Intel Asus barebones (945 chipset) system and with little effort an extra 2 or 3 drives can be fitted.
 
Thanks. Will the larger power supply / suggested motherboard make much of a difference to the running cost? Or does the power supply just take what it needs? I'm looking to keep the bills down as it will be a 24 hour machine.
 
The PSU will take what it needs. Difference in actual power usage will depend on the efficiency of the PSU.
Does the PC really need to be on 24/7? I turn my PC off manullay each night and the BIOS turns it on before I got home from work. The PC can be turned off via a scheduled task.
 
Tomsk said:
The PSU will take what it needs. Difference in actual power usage will depend on the efficiency of the PSU.
Does the PC really need to be on 24/7? I turn my PC off manullay each night and the BIOS turns it on before I got home from work. The PC can be turned off via a scheduled task.
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With a Windows Home Server setup my understanding is the idea is to leave it running 24 hours a day. It will be waking our other computers up every night to do a backup and will be hosting photo galleries, files and eventually my own website for external access.
 
I leave mine on 24/7. Use the biggest drive as your system drive (In this case the 750Gb). Thats PSU with the case will be fine, its certified as 80+ anyway, so its pretty energy efficient.
 
Syphon said:
With a Windows Home Server setup my understanding is the idea is to leave it running 24 hours a day. It will be waking our other computers up every night to do a backup and will be hosting photo galleries, files and eventually my own website for external access.
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Just a suggestion, since you were wanting to keep the bills down.

My backup routine works the other way around. My (non-WHS) server wakes up, then my PC. Then my PC starts a backup. All this before I get home from work.
 
PhillyDee said:
I leave mine on 24/7. Use the biggest drive as your system drive (In this case the 750Gb). Thats PSU with the case will be fine, its certified as 80+ anyway, so its pretty energy efficient.
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What's your setup if you don't mind me asking?
 
Tomsk said:
Just a suggestion, since you were wanting to keep the bills down.

My backup routine works the other way around. My (non-WHS) server wakes up, then my PC. Then my PC starts a backup. All this before I get home from work.
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Ta.

I might set it to shut down when not in use until I use it for external hosting. Always worth saving some cash :)
 
Currently
AMD X2 6000+ (Was an X2 4000+ until i decided to upgrade for folding :D)
Some SLI board that was B-Grade
16mb PCI Graphics (Spare at the time)
Old full tower beige wonder painted black and a side fan cut into the case.
IcyDock 3in2 hard drive bays with 3x500gb drives.
1Gb ram (Soon to be 2gb).
DVD-ROM
Oh, and a tagan 580W PSU. Was a spare too! I plan on sticking an antec earthwatts 380W PSU in there at some point instead of the tagan.

Just basic. I built it on the cheap originally.
 
Thanks. So have you got windows home server installed? If so, how do you find it? I've heard good things. :) (apart from the odd bug - soon to be fixed)
 
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