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mosin40
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I want to know what components should I choose to build a home server pc

 

1. Budget & Location

I live in Peru, but USD are more prefrable, max budget 100

 

2. Aim

Build a home server pc, mostly for storage and back-up

 

3. Monitors

There are some monitors i have laying around my house, not included in the budget

 

4. Peripherals

No need to buy, have some rubbish rubber-dome somewhere in my house

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

I need somewhere to store all my files, mostly because i am worried that some day my hdd will fail.

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I want to know what components should I choose to build a home server pc

 

1. Budget & Location

I live in Peru, but USD are more prefrable, max budget 100

 

2. Aim

Build a home server pc, mostly for storage and back-up

 

3. Monitors

There are some monitors i have lying around my house, not included in the budget

 

4. Peripherals

No need to buy, have some rubbish rubber-dome somewhere in my house

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

I need somewhere to store all my files, mostly because i am worried that some day my hdd will fail

Ah, gotcha. $100 or $1,000? :|

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What do you want to do with it? Streaming? Minecraft? VoIP? Other Server Stuff? Or do you just want a server?

 

If you live in South America, do you want US prices since you mentioned Dollars? 

So many questions. D:

Yes. USD 

i just updated the info

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Yes. USD 

i just updated the info

I'm assuming you still meant $1,000 even though it says 100 for max budget.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($171.98 @ OutletPC)

Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($171.98 @ OutletPC)

Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case ($89.99 @ NCIX US)

Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series 400W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.99 @ Amazon)

Other: ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard ($280.00 @ Newegg)

Other: Crucial 2x8GB ECC Unbuffered RAM ($169.99 @ Newegg Business)

Total: $993.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-06 00:57 EDT-0400

I highly recommend this for a lot of reasons. There are reasons for everything in there.

It's tiny, powerful, energy efficient, and mostly quiet. Use FreeNAS with ZFS with it. Here's the FreeNAS website. Here's where the "how to" guides are for whatever you wish to do. Have fun. If you have any questions, ask me.

† Christian Member †

For my pertinent links to guides, reviews, and anything similar, go here, and look under the spoiler labeled such. A brief history of Unix and it's relation to OS X by Builder.

 

 

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I'm assuming you still meant $1,000 even though it says 100 for max budget.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($171.98 @ OutletPC)

Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($171.98 @ OutletPC)

Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case ($89.99 @ NCIX US)

Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series 400W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.99 @ Amazon)

Other: ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard ($280.00 @ Newegg)

Other: Crucial 2x8GB ECC Unbuffered RAM ($169.99 @ Newegg Business)

Total: $993.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-06 00:57 EDT-0400

I highly recommend this for a lot of reasons. There are reasons for everything in there.

It's tiny, powerful, energy efficient, and mostly quiet. Use FreeNAS with ZFS with it. Here's the FreeNAS website. Here's where the "how to" guides are for whatever you wish to do. Have fun. If you have any questions, ask me.

Thanks a lot!!, i meant $1000

 

I have another question, which raid array shoud i use??

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Thanks a lot!!, i meant $1000

 

I have another question, which raid array shoud i use??

There are two drives so RAID 1 is your only option. When you upgrade, you should move to RAID 10. RAID 5, 6, & 7 are things I personally avoid for a few reasons.

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For my pertinent links to guides, reviews, and anything similar, go here, and look under the spoiler labeled such. A brief history of Unix and it's relation to OS X by Builder.

 

 

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