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So, I recently obtained a fairly old server. Two Xeon F41's on the PGA 604 socket clocked at 2800MHz. 4gb of DDR1 RAM. What OS would you recommend for a small, home storage server. Ive been looking at linux and Windows Home Server. Ive downloaded Windows Server 2003 for testing purposes, But thats as far as ive gotten. Any pointers on setting this thing up would be greatly appreciated being as I have no experience with servers. Thanks :D

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If it's just for storage have you considered FreeNAS?

 

Win Server 2003 is based on XP... It's pretty dated.

the server itself is super old, So i dont want to over load the CPUs. 

 

probably lubuntu or ubuntu server.

 

that said, the board DOES have sata, right?

Two SATA 1 ports on the Mother board, There also two IDE ports.

Desktop  - AMD Phenom II X4 955 - 12gb Hyper X DDR3 - NZXT Tempest - Asus M4A78DTX EVO - Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti - 160gb Toshiba garbage - 1tb WD garbage

Laptop - HP Pavilion G7-2269wm - AMD A8-4500M - 6gb DDR3 - 320 gig Western Digital Scorpio drive - AMD HD 7640G graphics - 17.3 inch display

Server - x2 Xeon f41 2.80GHz - 4gb DDR ECC Reg - Intel Serverboard SE7320GP2 - ATI Rage 128 8mb - 120gb Seagate boot - 640 gb Network share

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If it's just for storage have you considered FreeNAS?

 

Win Server 2003 is based on XP... It's pretty dated.

I mean the Ubuntu Server Version ofc. And 2012 cuz the 2003 version is not getting supported much longer by Microsoft

well... the server is pretty dated as well...

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Arch linux if you know at least the basics about linux. Otherwise ubuntu server - given your hardware I'd opt for xfce

i wouldnt consider installing arch linux the basics of linux :P

 

but yes, all the arch linux goodness pl0x.

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Debian

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Everyday build:

CPU: Intel Core i7 5960x - GPU(s): 2x EVGA GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX2.0+ (SLI) - Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 - Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X99 - RAM: 32GB Kingston HyperX Fury Black DDR4 4x8GB (2666MHz) - Storage: Intel 750 Series 1.2TB + 4TB WD Black - Case: Corsair 760T White - PSU: SeaSonic 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified - OS: Windows 10 Pro - Wireless Adapter: TP-Link Archer T9E - Monitor: Acer XB270HU bprz - Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB - Mouse(s): Corsair Gaming M65 RGB + Logitech MX Master - Headphones: Sennheiser PC363D

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WhyK99 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/474247-r8-my-build/

 

Weekend build:

CPU: Intel Core i7 5930k - GPU(s): 2x EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified ACX2.0+ (SLI) - Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 - Motherboard: ASUS X99-Deluxe - RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 4x8GB (2666MHz) - Storage: Samsung 950 Pro 512GB m.2 & 2TB Samsung 850 Evo - Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv - PSU: SeaSonic SnowSilent 1050W 80+ Platinum Certified - OS: Windows 10 Home - Monitor: Dell S2716DG 144hz - Keyboard: Corsair STRAFE RGB - Mouse: Corsair Gaming M65 RGB - Headphones: Sennheiser PC363D

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FreeNAS requires 8gb of RAM, This server uses DDR1 RAM, which is incredibly hard to find. I need to find four DIMMs of DDR1 ECC 184 pin stuffs. Which is another reason as to why im going with older OS's 

Desktop  - AMD Phenom II X4 955 - 12gb Hyper X DDR3 - NZXT Tempest - Asus M4A78DTX EVO - Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti - 160gb Toshiba garbage - 1tb WD garbage

Laptop - HP Pavilion G7-2269wm - AMD A8-4500M - 6gb DDR3 - 320 gig Western Digital Scorpio drive - AMD HD 7640G graphics - 17.3 inch display

Server - x2 Xeon f41 2.80GHz - 4gb DDR ECC Reg - Intel Serverboard SE7320GP2 - ATI Rage 128 8mb - 120gb Seagate boot - 640 gb Network share

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Debian

 

This is probably gonna be a controversial thing to say.

 

Sell the stuff on ebay and buy a cheap haswell dual core. Will save you a LOT of power, and run more modern OS's / drives better.

Those two Xeons will have ~220W TDP, compared with like 35W on a cheap dualcore haswell.

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i wouldnt consider installing arch linux the basics of linux :P

 

but yes, all the arch linux goodness pl0x.

 

there are plenty of tutorials on the installation, that's not the problem - the problem is using it afterwards

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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there are plenty of tutorials on the installation, that's not the problem - the problem is using it afterwards

even with tutorials i wouldnt call it all that easy. you still really need to know what you're doing in order to do it right.

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even with tutorials i wouldnt call it all that easy. you still really need to know what you're doing in order to do it right.

 

I made it, and I'm not a linux guru by any stretch of the imagination ^^ it just takes a bit of trial and error in a virtual machine to learn how it works and then do the same on a server

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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I made it, and I'm not a linux guru by any stretch of the imagination ^^ it just takes a bit of trial and error in a virtual machine to learn how it works and then do the same on a server

thats how i did it as well...

 

and from my experience its rather easy to maintain on the server side of things.

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