Server curiosity

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:44

I'm a complete noob when it comes to servers and I was just wondering if someone could explain to me the benefits of having a home server and how I would go about rigging one up.

Do you have to build them yourself like a custom PC or can you buy pre-built ones??

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:50

I literally don't know where to start with it all. Could you explain what a NAS is please? It does sound like it would be a good investment though

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 21:02

Sounds good mate. It's something I definitely want to look into at some point because I do have quite a lot of movies, music, TV shows etc. on my PC and my HDD is filling up quick so it would be nice to have somewhere else to store them so I didn't have to clear them out every so often

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 21:11

That is actually a hell of a lot cheaper than I thought it was going to be

thank you very much mate. I appreciate the help

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 21:22

Are these drives all good to put into it?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=2612

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 21:36

Awesome mate. I've bookmarked the page so I remember which ones I'm buying

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 21:47

It's really only file storage that I've been looking into it for

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 21:53

I've gotta save up for it first haha I was gonna get an SSD as my next upgrade but it sounds like a home server would be a lot more beneficial to me

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 21:54

It'll have to wait til after Christmas now but I'm gonna get the case first and the HDD's after

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 22:02

Minstadave said:
SSD is a must have upgrade! Do it.

Our server is used for:

Automated back ups of all the desktops/laptops
Media serving
Downloads overnight
Remote access to files when away from home

The one thing I wish it did would be to download then serve windows updates to all the machines connected, but not found a way to do this.

I'll definitely get round to the SSD at some point but I'm gonna go for the server first. It sounds like it'll be a bigger help to me than an SSD at the moment

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 22:50

It's definitely on the to-do list