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Theizzardking

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    Theizzardking reacted to Mira Yurizaki in *help* complete network design overview; home server vs NAS box vs ?   
    The thing with the dual booting is you have to have a hypervisor OS like something from VMWare or Unraid, otherwise you're doing only one or the other OS. That may or may not come cheap for a home user. From a cost perspective, I think it would be best to have two separate machines. A file server doesn't have to be powerful. Mine runs on a dinky Celeron. I don't use it for transcoding stuff on the fly though, so if you need it to do that you'll have to adjust the hardware accordingly.
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    Theizzardking reacted to AnonymousGuy in *help* complete network design overview; home server vs NAS box vs ?   
    I have a dedicated storage server and a dedicated compute server.  My sig has the specs, but my opinion was the storage server should be tasked 100% with just storage.  For max reliability I didn't want to be "trying stuff" on it.  The compute server is my "do whatever" server.  VM's, Plex, IP camera streaming + recording,  HTTP(S)/FTP file server, etc.
     
    Prebuild NAS's suck IMO.  They're expensive as hell and can't be expanded.  You can throw together a Pentium/Celeron last-gen box with some older Areca Adaptec Intel raid adapters for not that much money.
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