A Couple Of Questions Regarding A Home Server

[RightClickHarder]

Hello everyone.

 

So, I have been running a home server for a while now, but I have been thinking about changing it up a bit. Right now, I have two drives in it, one for the OS and one for files. This is of cause not optimal, but that is what I had at hand. I'm running Windows Server 2012 Essentials on it, and while that is working fine, I have been thinking about Linux for a while. Would there be any advantages using Linux over Windows? If yes, what distributions would you recommend?

Also, I need to set up RAID on the server sometime soon. Assuming I buy two drives more for the server, would RAID 5 be an ideal choice or is there another option I should look out for?

[Mattie432]

Truth be told i dont know a lot about this but i do remember linus did some vids on it.
 

 

Maybe these will help.

[rufee]

If you dont have any experience with linux and dont have any machines that run it then no keep running windows.

For a home server i dont see running linux would improve anything.

[Caravetta]

For your raid 5 were you thinking about getting a raid card or using the on board raid? Also I agree with Rufee if you dont know linux stick with windows unless you want to learn linux if so then this would be a good way to do it.

[RightClickHarder]

For your raid 5 were you thinking about getting a raid card or using the on board raid? Also I agree with Rufee if you dont know linux stick with windows unless you want to learn linux if so then this would be a good way to do it.

 

I'm planning on using software RAID of some kind. I have heard good things about Stablebit Drivepool and Flexraid. Would Storage Spaces in Windows also be good enough?

[rufee]

For general file storage yes.