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Hey you all, I'm back! I got 2x 4TB seagate barracuda HDD, maintaining the 1TB seagate barracuda HDD and the 250GB Kingston SSD Now i'm going to finally install Linux to have my home serve! I'm planning to follow this steps: - intalling Ubuntu Desktop v. 20.04.1 LTS - unblock the screen (yes, this is the first time i'm setting a linux machine) - use Synaptic to clean the OS and installing Samba - Configure Samba - Install ProFTPD and set it up - Set up the SSH - Install Plex or other media streamer I'm following a 2013 guide, if you guys have any suggestions on it I'll appreciate a lot. Thank you all!

I don't use plex - yet. Definitely goin to use some media player/organizer software,probably plex. Thanks for the full answer! Well, i thought turning it on when I - or someone - wake up or needs it and turning it off when its not going to be used in a long time (a day). But maybe its better to stay always on? Just to save energy and to try to save a little bit of hardware usage, or I'm just being crazy? I imagine that if 24/7 I should go NAS and off/on would go with regular.

Budget (including currency): 1200 dollars Country: Brazil Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: File sharing, video and music stream and backup. Other details Hello to all, I have an old pc and want to turn it on a home server. My old pc config is: Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-M LE/BR (2x DIMM DDR3 1333/1066MHz, non-ECC, un-buffered, max 16GB RAM // 4x SATA II 3.0 Gbps // 1x PCI Express 2.0 x16, 2x PCI Express 2.0 1x, 1x PCI // max 10x USB) CPU: i5-2500 3.30GHz GPU: EVGA GTX 750ti 2GB RAM: 8GB (2x 4GB DDR3 1333MHz) Storage: 1x SSD 250GB Kingston SUV400S37/240G; 1x HDD 1TB Seagate ST1000DM003 Power Supply: EVGA 500 80plus I´m not the most tech-savvy guy, so I came here to get a little help. I’m reading other topics as well, so maybe some of the questions i'll leve strikethrough when i find the answer. The server is aimed to have my family dvd/bluray and cd collection, family photos and videos and some text files, as well for Backup. Being able to stream for my tv and tablets and accessing it from my PC is a must. I'll not be gaming from it. The only thing that i know that needs to be replaced is the HDD, I believe that I should take out the SSD as well to enable 4x Sata HDDs. Does the CPU and the RAM handles this library well? I could get more RAM, 2x 8GB DDR3 1333MHz, but that would take out budget from the storage. I need the GPU for anything? In another post i´ve seen a discussion between someone saying that it´s better to have it for video streams and someone else saying that the cpu handles quite well 4K 60fps videos. In the Storage I imagined that I could use 3x 6TB (IronWolf or WD Red) NAS for file management and 1x 6TB for Backup. I can´t afford to have everything on backup, so I believe that 6TB is more than enough space to my absolute necessary files. If i lose the others, well, that's life. Should i get all NAS or could I be off with the Barracuda series instead? Since my main goal is to create and access a library, I wont be changing most of the content, and the Barracuda series is 30% cheaper. Can I install the OS in the HDD that I'll be using to read/write information or I need another one just to have Linux? Last but not least, how i protect it from others from accessing it? Thank you all for the support