Home/Office Server Building Help

HybridCortex · May 16, 2015

Hello everyone. I'm not really sure if this is the correct place to put this, but here we go.

I am wanting to build a server for my home/office space for me and my room-mates. We want to have a shared server for all our media(Photos, Videos, files) that we can all access anytime and work from.

The only thing is, We have no idea where to start. None of us are good with servers, and do not know that much about server building either.

If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be wonderful.

So far this is the basic idea for the server.

CPU: ?

Motherboard: ?

PSU: ?

Memory: 64gb

Storage: 5-10tb's of ssd's

Case: ?

Any advice would be appreciated. So far it is a rough idea, and we would really like to take it further for ourselves.

*At the time, price is not a factor, we are only trying to figure what we should get, or try for the project.*

Toxicable · May 16, 2015

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Do you need processing power on it? eg using it as a render server? or just for quick storage?(NAS)

TheKDub · May 16, 2015

If you're just using it as a NAS, you won't need a ton of processing power, or a ton of RAM either.

MrKickkiller · May 16, 2015

I don't think you need a 10 tb array of ssds for a normal user.

Only Linus is mad enough to do that.

Prediction: Watch out, he'll make a 24 PCIe server one day!

Toxicable · May 16, 2015

I don't think you need a 10 tb array of ssds for a normal user.

Only Linus is mad enough to do that.

Prediction: Watch out, he'll make a 24 PCIe server one day!

I'm waiting for that day.

As for OP, maybe just 1 of intels 750 NVM SSDs then a bunch of HDDs.

HybridCortex · May 16, 2015

Basically The server will be used for editing our videos, photos, etc..

It will also hold other media, and a ton of video game related projects for our own needs/wants.

and yeah the 10tb is overkill but we thought it would be fun to have. With the projects we want to start we thought it would be plenty of space for all our storage needs.

Yes. We would need it for processing power as well as storage.