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3 minutes ago, Someone you dont know said:

I want to get into content creation and me and my family need a home server. what are the requirements?

 

Its for File Storage

 

Also is it possible to put an ethernet port into the server and the other end in the pc to make transfer faster?

Well... It depends. How much data? Do you plan to do anything else?

 

 

and for the ethernet, Unless both of the motherboard already support it, likely no. You might not need it if it's going to be a hard drive sever, as even a bunch of them in raid 0 or 10 are slow as $h!t. 

I am NOT a professional and a lot of the time what I'm saying is based on limited knowledge and experience. I'm going to be incorrect at times. 

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Just now, Brok3n But who cares? said:

Well... It depends. How much data? Do you plan to do anything else?

 

 

and for the ethernet, Unless both of the motherboard already support it, likely no. You might not need it if it's going to be a hard drive sever, as even a bunch of them in raid 0 or 10 are slow as $h!t. 

probably around 5 to 10 tb of HDD storage and my family will want to put movies and shows onto it and other stuff I'm not sure about

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Just now, Someone you dont know said:

probably around 5 to 10 tb of HDD storage and my family will want to put movies and shows onto it and other stuff I'm not sure about

Okay. Budget?

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13 minutes ago, Someone you dont know said:

$900 USD

Does tht include drives?

 

Wht network speed?

 

Fileserers don't need much in terms of performance, so althon or pentium will work fine. 

 

What os do you want to use?

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2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Does tht include drives?

 

Wht network speed?

 

Fileserers don't need much in terms of performance, so althon or pentium will work fine. 

 

What os do you want to use?

it includes drives, network speed is 300mbs, I don't mind for os unless its better and fits in budget

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10 minutes ago, Someone you dont know said:

$900 USD

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Broken_Gamer/saved/#view=3LY7XL

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Just now, Someone you dont know said:

it includes drives, network speed is 300mbs, I don't mind for os unless its better and fits in budget

Is your home network gigbit? 

 

your isp speed doesn't matter for local transfers.

 

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How bout this? add more drives if needed. Id probably run unraid. SHould easily fill a gigabit network.

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2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Is your home network gigbit? 

 

your isp speed doesn't matter for local transfers.

 

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CPU: AMD Athlon 3000G 3.5 GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A/CSM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($30.99 @ Amazon) 
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Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($214.99 @ Newegg) 
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How bout this? add more drives if needed. Id probably run unraid. SHould easily fill a gigabit network.

thank you aswell

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4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Is your home network gigbit? 

 

your isp speed doesn't matter for local transfers.

 

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How bout this? add more drives if needed. Id probably run unraid. SHould easily fill a gigabit network.

I would reccomened just 2tb drives so he could do raid 0 and speed up the process. Thats also why  I added the R5, for its drive bays.

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Just now, Brok3n But who cares? said:

I would reccomened just 2tb drives so he could do raid 0 and speed up the process. Thats also why  I added the R5, for its drive bays.

rid 0 relly wont here though. Your going to be limited with a gigabit network even with a single drive.

 

4 minutes ago, Someone you dont know said:

no it is not

what is it? if you have 300m from your isp, your probably don't have 100m. 

 

Home networks are normally gigabit these days, some are 100m, this is differet from what your isp gives you.

 

9 minutes ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Broken_Gamer/saved/#view=3LY7XL

Just saying, those are smr drives, so id say away if using them in raid.

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