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Hello,

I really don't understand what the benefits of having a server in your home so could someone explain this to me please?

I have a old system which has no use so I want to turn it in a server if it will benefit me. would this be capable server specs below?

Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 Intel X38
Q6600 @ 3.4 GHZ
OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB 1066MHz Dual Channel
PowerColor HD 3870 XT X2 1GB GDDR3 256bit
Antec TruePower Quattro 850W Modular PS
 
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Most people have a server at home for centralised storage - store all your photos, music, movies, documents etc in one place that is available to any machine on your network.

Your system would be fine as a server, but many look to run as low power as they can get away with as the server is usually on 24/7, and a Q6600 at 3.4Ghz will be munching power needlessly unless you are doing transcoding or something else with it - someone else might want to comment there.

My storage server is an i3 2100T with 4GB RAM as it was one of the lowest power CPU's I could get my hand on in a board format I needed and it's still way over the top spec-wise.
 
okay thanks! is a NAS a server? I know that I could benefit from that me because I love streaming content from my laptop.
 
Yes, a NAS is a server but usually a NAS is more of a "device" in that the operating system is hidden away and you get some kind of GUI to play with - think of a NAS being a particular type of server.

HP Microserver is a good platform for a NAS.
 
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