Spec Me A Home Server

Minimoke

Minimoke

Minimoke

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Hey everyone,
I know home servers are a bit of a no brainer when it comes to getting the bits to make them, but I thought I'd make a thread to hear your ideas anyway. It would be for all of the media and documents in the house; music, pictures, videos, and would basically be the central location for everything. I'd like to know what parts are known for their reliability and will keep cool, and what configuration I should use for it to be as safe as possible. I was thinking mirroring 2 TB drives and having an 80GB for the OS and the rest, is that all there is to it? Just wanted a few opinions :D

Cheers, Chris.
 
Hey there,
Well I've already got a case, PSU, MB, and a few old hard drives I could use, but they are only small and odd sizes. The MB has SATA, and I have a Sempron 2.2GHz going spare which I could use. What I'd really like to know is the best way to configure it. I've got a licence of XP Home I can use, but I'm aware that might not be very suitable for a server. So my budget will need to incorporate 2x 1TB hard drives, which I'm thinking of mirroring for redundency. But software wise, I'm pretty clueless. Any suggestions? Cheers, Chris.
 
Hey guys,
I've been looking at WHS, it seems like the most sensible idea. As for the motherboard, it's an Asus M2A-MX, which is the standard board that my local computer store use. When I worked there for work experience, I remember setting up RAID on those boards, just used a USB floppy drive and away I went. It should be fine in that sense. So you guys think that mirroring is the best idea for the drives? Oh, and I've got a stick of 1GB DDR2 RAM I can put in it somewhere. Cheers, Chris.
 
Hey everyone,
that's interesting, WHS sounds perfect for what I need. I've got 3 desktops in the house, and will probably be getting another one soon. Does it back up everything, as in the whole system drive and documents? I use an external drive for my documents, will it back that up as well? Would I only use one hard drive in the server? I should really read some reviews :P

Cheers, Chris.
 
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