Spec me a home server.... Please :P

[ericrollo]

I have just purchased a PC from overclockers and very thankful for the advice on this forum.

I have decided to see if i can build a PC rather than buying one ready made.

My requirements are that it must be a smaller machine than the Coolermaster CM 690 II.

It must have at least 4TB of storage and possibly with some sort of RAID system for back ups. Lots of films games and work stuff i will also use it for some simple hosting on my LAN.

I guess CPU and memory is not much of an issue.

No need for a monitor, keyboard etc.

Anything else that is required when building a computer?

 

[memyselfandi]

It must have at least 4TB of storage and possibly with some sort of RAID system for back ups.

Please, please, please understand RAID is not backup. RAID, apart from RAID0 of course, is online resiliency to allow for data to remain accessible even if a disk fails.

Even if you have a RAID configuration for your storage then you still need to take backups. What if you accidentally delete the wrong file(s) ... RAID won't help you, what if your server PSU blows and fries all your disks ... RAID won't help you, what if your OS corrupts your filesystem ... RAID won't help you.

Just because you have RAIDed storage it doesn't mean that you shouldn't keep a backup of your data separately.

If I had a £1 for every time I've heard of someone falling foul of this ....

 

[ericrollo]

Please, please, please understand RAID is not backup. RAID, apart from RAID0 of course, is online resiliency to allow for data to remain accessible even if a disk fails.

Even if you have a RAID configuration for your storage then you still need to take backups. What if you accidentally delete the wrong file(s) ... RAID won't help you, what if your server PSU blows and fries all your disks ... RAID won't help you, what if your OS corrupts your filesystem ... RAID won't help you.

Just because you have RAIDed storage it doesn't mean that you shouldn't keep a backup of your data separately.

If I had a £1 for every time I've heard of someone falling foul of this ....

Most of it will be stored separately and RAID provides reduendency incase of a harddrive faliure which might be useful.

The computer in question will be used to back up my house hold computers and my external drive and thus backed up.

It will also be used to host stuff locally like M$ SQL databases.