Blairfriesen94

Yeah, I totally agree. I'm actually hoping to use some higher capacity Seagate Ironwolf drives.

I have not looked into it but that sounds like a great idea, I'm definitely going to see what I can find in my area. Do you have any ideas on what kind of hardware would be required for what I'm looking to do? I already have an idea of what I want for storage drives but everything else im not too sure. Like processor, ram, motherboard, psu. If I'm looking into used then I probably can't get to picky there but I may or may not need to upgrade some hardware and I'd like to look for stuff around the ball park of what I need in order to minimize the amount of hardware I need to upgrade.

I would like it to be highly automated and remote management would be very handy considering I spend a lot of time away from home for work.

Hey everyone, I'm looking into building my own home server and I want it to do (what feels like) quite a few things. And before anyone mentions it, I'm not expecting it to be cheap. Form factor isn't a huge deal whether it's rack mounted or built into a case. I eventually plan on upgrading my home network such as running Ethernet directly to rooms I need it in, and some access points around the house so I may eventually be getting a server rack anyway just for sake of keeping things neat and tidy. Here's what I would like it to be able to do: -Stream media to any device inside and outside the home network -Server side transcoding for devices with limited codec support -Host game servers to run 24/7 -Auto download torrents via RSS feed -Manually add and manage torrents -Detect file types, rename files based on a specified uniformed format, and organize into folders and create folders if required folders don't exist -Cloud storage service accessable from outside of home network and maybe be able to split into multiple users -VPN connectable -auto back up for multiple computers deticating about 6tb I'm also happy to hear any other ideas that you guys figure might benefit me. Thanks for your help in advance!