Planning and advice for building home server

[CyberJesus88]

Hey peeps. I'm planning on building a home server some time in the near future and im looking for some guidance. I currently have 2 x 2tb hard drives in my computer so those will be used as storage but i will want some room for expandability. i plan on using it as storage for my home media as well as back ups and will need to be using plugins such as plex and bittorrent sync (or something comparable). As far as a OS it concerned, the main few seem to be windows home server (lack of plugins), freenas (risky without expensive ecc ram), ubuntu home server (complicated to setup, lots of command prompt) and Amahi (smaller user base, there for lack of information). my budget is flexible up intil about 400 or so but obviously the cheaper the better.

Basically what im trying to ask,

What would the be OS be to forfill my needs?

What hardware would be approperiate to run it?

Thanks in advance.

[DarrenP]

Hey peps. I'm planning on building a home server some time in the near future and im looking for some guidance. I currently have 2 x 2tb hard drives in my computer so those will be used as storage but i will want some room for expandability. i plan on using it as storage for my home media as well as back ups and will need to be using plugins such as plex and bittorrent sync (or something comparable). As far as a OS it concerned, the main few seem to be windows home server (lack of plugins), freenas (risky without expensive ecc ram), ubuntu home server (complicated to setup, lots of command prompt) and Amahi (smaller user base, there for lack of information). my budget is flexible up intil about 400 or so but obviously the cheaper the better.

Basically what im trying to ask,

What would the be OS be to forfill my needs?

What hardware would be approperiate to run it?

Thanks in advance.

The proper word you were looking for was "Peeps". I would suggest just grabbing a NAS, or Network Attached Storage server. Something. I would suggest just grabbing a D-Link-343. Of course if you can find one. It's very easy to use and setup. I used to use one at my old job for our server. It was fantastic. I'd suggest grabbing a cheaper 4-Bay NAS, filling it with 2TB WD Blue/Red/Black drives. I'd then suggest using a RAID 10. Known also as RAID 1+0. As 2 drives are used as a RAID 0, and the other 2 drives are used to back up that RAID 0. The best of both worlds i find. 

[strawberrymaker]

Would suggest you the HP N54L or N40L . I love mine. And yeah some 2-tb HDDs (like WD Green with the tool wdiddle or the red, which cost bit more) And take a USB drive and put there a nas os on it and install the drive internal.

 

~Straw

[CyberJesus88]

 

 

The proper word you were looking for was "Peeps". I would suggest just grabbing a NAS, or Network Attached Storage server. Something. I would suggest just grabbing a D-Link-343. Of course if you can find one. It's very easy to use and setup. I used to use one at my old job for our server. It was fantastic. I'd suggest grabbing a cheaper 4-Bay NAS, filling it with 2TB WD Blue/Red/Black drives. I'd then suggest using a RAID 10. Known also as RAID 1+0. As 2 drives are used as a RAID 0, and the other 2 drives are used to back up that RAID 0. The best of both worlds i find.

Obviously just an accidental spelling error, you don't have to go grammar nazi on me.......not to mention you really didn't answer my question at all.

[DarrenP]

Obviously just an accidental spelling error, you don't have to go grammar nazi on me.......not to mention you really didn't answer my question at all.

I was kidding around. I did answer your question though. I did tell you the best way to get a home server going. There is not a chance in hell you're going to be able to build a server even worth building for a home server. Unless you bought something like a used 2950 V3. There is no sense for your use case that you would need a dedicated server. a NAS if more than enough. 

[CyberJesus88]

bump.

[itchiTriGgeR]

Ecc ram isn't all that more expensive. Free-nas can do all what you need and then some. Just search the Web on some freenas builds.

[CyberJesus88]

bump.