Personal Home Server

[C_Mike]

Hey Guys

 

For a While now I've been planning on building a small personal home server, and I needed it to match a couple of criteria

 

• Cheap-If possible under £200 
• Low Power Consumption

I plan to use it for running a very small teamspeak server and a plex media server (neither will be used at the same time), I will be running a Linux Distro (could do with a sugestion)

 

Thanks to the (somewhat) recent release of AMD's Kabini Processors, I think I've come up with quite a cheap low power consumption server.

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/VPvpmG

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/VPvpmG/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD 3850 1.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£22.79 @ Aria PC) 

Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  (£21.17 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case  (£34.33 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (£29.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Other: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Single Channel Kit  (£29.99)

Total: £138.27

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

 

1. Do you have any suggestions?
2. Do you think it will be fit for purpose?
3. Do You think I could possibly run some NAS software at the same time as Teamspeak and/ore Plex?

 

 

[terrytek]

If you want a cheap server, you can use my Compaq Pentium 3 system. I still use it as a server. 256 megs of RAM, but still pretty peppy. 20GB Hard drive,but has room for 1 more.

[Vitalius]

I bought two Xeon 6 core CPUs, a motherboard, & 32GB of ECC RAM off of Ebay for $235. You can probably get a decent hardware server for less than that (note that is ~£136). Note that this is a powerful server. A single Xeon with 16GB of ECC RAM would be more than enough, so you could probably get by with $150 or so (£87 or so).

Note that I had to bypass some really good deals because they were UK only (I didn't notice the .co.uk until I was about to buy it). 

I suggest doing that and using FreeNAS. It's FreeBSD based, but many commands are similar to Linux (though not all obviously). 

I have Plex running on my server as well as a MC server and both rock on like nobodies business (Plex streaming is great & MC FPS is between 45 & 120 with certain texture packs). 

As long as you buy from trusted sellers with good reputations that have buyer's back guarantee, there's nothing to fear. 

[C_Mike]

I bought two Xeon 6 core CPUs, a motherboard, & 32GB of ECC RAM off of Ebay for $235. You can probably get a decent hardware server for less than that (note that is ~£136). Note that this is a powerful server. A single Xeon with 16GB of ECC RAM would be more than enough, so you could probably get by with $150 or so (£87 or so).

Note that I had to bypass some really good deals because they were UK only (I didn't notice the .co.uk until I was about to buy it). 

I suggest doing that and using FreeNAS. It's FreeBSD based, but many commands are similar to Linux (though not all obviously). 

I have Plex running on my server as well as a MC server and both rock on like nobodies business (Plex streaming is great & MC FPS is between 45 & 120 with certain texture packs). 

As long as you buy from trusted sellers with good reputations that have buyer's back guarantee, there's nothing to fear. 

 

Just picked this bargain up on eBay for £35!!!

 

HP Proliant DL580*Quad Xeon 2.7GHz G2 Server - 8gb RAM - 4 x 36.4gb hard disks

[Vitalius]

Just picked this bargain up on eBay for £35!!!

 

HP Proliant DL580*Quad Xeon 2.7GHz G2 Server - 8gb RAM - 4 x 36.4gb hard disks

That's epic. I assume the RAM is ECC. That would be perfect. Just swap out the 4 HDD's with whatever drives you need (if it supports SATA rather than IDE). 

[C_Mike]

That's epic. I assume the RAM is ECC. That would be perfect. Just swap out the 4 HDD's with whatever drives you need (if it supports SATA rather than IDE). 

 

Yeah, the RAM is ECC, and drives are SATA, 

[Vitalius]

Yeah, the RAM is ECC, and drives are SATA, 

Then yes, absolutely perfect.