Home Servers

[INFLICTEDPAIN213]

Hey guys, Alex here, right I'm planning to make a home server for me, dad and brother. I want a simple machine with 6-8tb of space with backups. i know i want to go with raid 5 as a set-up and I have stuff like monitors, mice, case ect. my budget is no more then £1500 GBP (British Stirling) 

 

What drives do you recommend along with Raid card, MB, PSU, CPU ect.

 

if this isnt too clear hit me up on skype (Hello_jingo) im on most of the time and i can explain a little better in call

 

thanks guys  

/Alex

[WoodenMarker]

What kind of case do you have? What kind of OS are you using for the home server?

Are you running it as anything else? Just FTP? NAS?

[INFLICTEDPAIN213]

its just an old dell, it has loads of room inside like, os will be either WHS 2011 or 2013 and using as a nas

[Samdb]

I'm not an expert, but with a little research I put this together: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1iPo2

 

If anybody has any suggestions in ways to improve it, then by all means, let me know.

[INFLICTEDPAIN213]

sweet man thats great. what about a raid card? or shall i use WHS and just the MB

[MJOLNITR VIPER]

sweet man thats great. what about a raid card? or shall i use WHS and just the MB

I was just about to say that. I think you should get one.  Which one I have no idea, i dont know much a bout servers, but I am also planning on building one in the future.  So raid card advice would be helpful for me as well. 

[WoodenMarker]

its just an old dell, it has loads of room inside like, os will be either WHS 2011 or 2013 and using as a nas

Form factor of the case would help. If you're just running a NAS, you might want to look into FreeNAS or even just Window 7. 

In Windows 7, you could just share a drive/file with different permissions.

[INFLICTEDPAIN213]

Form factor of the case would help. If you're just running a NAS, you might want to look into FreeNAS or even just Window 7. 

In Windows 7, you could just share a drive/file with different permissions.

i was wrong its an old thermaltake kandalf lcs case so it is atx but supports loads more

[WoodenMarker]

i was wrong its an old thermaltake kandalf lcs case so it is atx but supports loads more

Here you go: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1iUZf

 

Motherboard has 8 native sata 6gb/s ports and supports onboard raid 0, 1, 5, and 10.

[INFLICTEDPAIN213]

Here you go: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1iUZf

 

Motherboard has 8 native sata 6gb/s ports and supports onboard raid 0, 1, 5, and 10.

sweet man thanks this is why i love this forum, proper concise help