Home Server Hardware

[RiccardoIT]

Hi guys,

 

I was thinking about the idea to buy a nas, but since I've never built a computer before, actually building a server should be more "educational".

So I'm asking your help to look for a cheap cpu and a cheap motherboard to build my first server.

 

Budget:

It's about 600/700€ for all the server. And I'm going to buy more hdd in the future.

 

Hardware I thought:

- 1x 120GB SSD (I already have it) that I can use for the OS. --> 0€

- 2x 4TB WD RED HDD --> 170€ x 2

- An Intel Xeon CPU (but which one?)

 

What I use it for:

- store movies, photos, music

- access it from a smart TV

- probably plugin an IPcam

- put online some little websites, or test virtual machine and so on..

 

What do you suggest me for these purposes? Which CPU, MB, PSU, Case, RAM, OS should I use?

 

Hope to talk with you sooner.

Sorry for my bad english and thank you everybody.

Richard.

 

 

[Coaxialgamer]

5 minutes ago, RiccardoIT said:

Hi guys,

 

I was thinking about the idea to buy a nas, but since I've never built a computer before, actually building a server should be more "educational".

So I'm asking your help to look for a cheap cpu and a cheap motherboard to build my first server.

 

Budget:

It's about 600/700€ for all the server. And I'm going to buy more hdd in the future.

 

Hardware I thought:

- 1x 120GB SSD (I already have it) that I can use for the OS. --> 0€

- 2x 4TB WD RED HDD --> 170€ x 2

- An Intel Xeon CPU (but which one?)

 

What I use it for:

- store movies, photos, music

- access it from a smart TV

- probably plugin an IPcam

- put online some little websites, or test virtual machine and so on..

 

What do you suggest me for these purposes? Which CPU, MB, PSU, Case, RAM, OS should I use?

 

Hope to talk with you sooner.

Sorry for my bad english and thank you everybody.

Richard.

 

 

iw ould use one of those low power xeons or a regular e3 if you can find one for cheaper.

[Aditya_V]

For CPU I would recommend Xeon E3 1231 V3, It is a great CPU & will be perfect for your build. If you don't want to go such high end then probably you can just stick with i5 4460.

For MotherBoard:- You can go for any LGA 1150 board such as GIGABYTE B85M-DS3H-A  if you don't require ECC RAM. If you want ECC RAM then may be you can go for ASRock E3C224-V+. 

RAM:- 8GB (2x4 GB)

Storage :- I recommend getting 2/3 WD Red 3TB Storage as these have the best per GB costs.

PSU:- Choose the most reliable PSU even if it costs more, trust me it will be worth it.

GPU:- if you choose to get the Xeon processor, then you will require a Graphics Card as the processor does not come with integrated Graphics, you can either get a MoBo with OnBoard Graphics or buy some cheap used GTX 610.

You can choose to get a RAID card if you want to have RAID 5 or 6, but I wouldn't recommend such complex stuff considering it is your first build.

[RiccardoIT]

Hi guys,

 

thank you for your reply.

 

A Intel Xeon E3 and a Intel I5 are still expensive.

 

Meanwhile a friend of mine helped me with the search and we find out these:

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 (113,30€)

RAM: DDR3 Corsair Vengeance Pro 1600MHz 32GB (4x8GB) CL9 1.5V (154,90€)

MOBO: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H (82,70€)

HDD: Seagate NAS HDD 4TB 3.5" 64MB 5900RPM SATA3 (139,30€ x 4)

 

This mobo also supports raid so my idea is to start with raid 5.

With all this stuff we are over 900€ and PSU and case are still missing!

 

Now we can't find a case which is suitable for a nas / server.

What do you think about our choose?

 

Bye!

[Aekim]

Perhaps look into an older i3, the 2100 with mainboard is sth like 100 bucks or less.  And you don't need that much RAM, go with 8-16gb. I would recommend software RAID instead of Hardware ( you have to get the exact mobo to rebuild it, with software you can just import the old drives on a new PC) 

This is a cheap solution you could upgrade if it's too weak

 

http://geizhals.eu/?cat=WL-631687&wlkey=24e527d82ba0be523a9f819f6c30b1c8

[pat-e]

You can try looking int HP Microserver Gen8.

 

They have 4 Bays for HDD (but there is enough space to but an additional SSD in it), it is available with a Xeon ... and has buildin IP-KVM (ILO4)

 

And those doesn't cost that much...