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Hi all,
It seems I only really post on here when I need help with a build, but i'm a bit of a part time enthusiast and there's always the best advice on here, in fact, to find my various builds over the years, you probably only need to look at my post history
Anyway, now the polite pre-amble is over, I think I have a pretty unique problem I would appreciate your help with.
I currently have server sat in my loft, within that machine are fairly dated hardware components and 11 * 2TB hard drives. It currently runs WHS 2011 and was my first foray into 'server building'.
Each of the hard drives are mirrored and 6 are plugged into the mobo, whilst 4 are on a PCI sata expansion card, the final is just connected via USB.
Due to funds it's a bit of a ramshackle build, although it's all housed in one of these for the old school amongst us:
I use to house my DVD rips, music and pictures. It doesn't do anything clever at the moment, just offers them up as shared drives, where I have a couple of Raspberry Pis and an old ACER E-Machine running KODI around the house.
Just recently the server has stopped booting - and i'm about due a newer solution and can't be bothered to fix it, so here goes.
I'd like to rebuild, but don't really want to fork out for new hard drives, so ideally i'd like to build something similar in it's place.
I've bought a couple of Google Chromecasts to replace the Pis I have dotted round the house, and I intend to use Plex server to push content to them. Thus I think I need a punchyish processor if I want to send 1080p.
Also, whilst it looks like I'm essentially after a NAS, I do the odd bit of tinkering with other stuff, VMs etc, so I'd like it to be a little bit cleverer than a generic NAS build.
I was thinking of using Windows 10, as i'm more familiar with windows and I have a 3 month old so don't have the capacity to learn much new stuff, but i'm open to other suggestions.
Anywho, hopefully enough info there, any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
It seems I only really post on here when I need help with a build, but i'm a bit of a part time enthusiast and there's always the best advice on here, in fact, to find my various builds over the years, you probably only need to look at my post history
Anyway, now the polite pre-amble is over, I think I have a pretty unique problem I would appreciate your help with.
I currently have server sat in my loft, within that machine are fairly dated hardware components and 11 * 2TB hard drives. It currently runs WHS 2011 and was my first foray into 'server building'.
Each of the hard drives are mirrored and 6 are plugged into the mobo, whilst 4 are on a PCI sata expansion card, the final is just connected via USB.
Due to funds it's a bit of a ramshackle build, although it's all housed in one of these for the old school amongst us:
I use to house my DVD rips, music and pictures. It doesn't do anything clever at the moment, just offers them up as shared drives, where I have a couple of Raspberry Pis and an old ACER E-Machine running KODI around the house.
Just recently the server has stopped booting - and i'm about due a newer solution and can't be bothered to fix it, so here goes.
I'd like to rebuild, but don't really want to fork out for new hard drives, so ideally i'd like to build something similar in it's place.
I've bought a couple of Google Chromecasts to replace the Pis I have dotted round the house, and I intend to use Plex server to push content to them. Thus I think I need a punchyish processor if I want to send 1080p.
Also, whilst it looks like I'm essentially after a NAS, I do the odd bit of tinkering with other stuff, VMs etc, so I'd like it to be a little bit cleverer than a generic NAS build.
I was thinking of using Windows 10, as i'm more familiar with windows and I have a 3 month old so don't have the capacity to learn much new stuff, but i'm open to other suggestions.
Anywho, hopefully enough info there, any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
