Posted December 21, 2015 What would be the best bare minimum windows server 2012 build Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one - Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 21, 2015 What would be the best bare minimum windows server 2012 build Those two things ("best", "bare minimum") don't really go together. Can you tell us more about what you plan on doing with it? File backups? Game hosting? I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo GalileiBuild Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 21, 2015 What would be the best bare minimum windows server 2012 build See: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/dn303418.aspx 1.4ghz processor 512MB RAM 32 GB Disk Space (not really this large, they calculate this as Server core running IIS). But as wpirobotbuilder said, what are you planning to use this for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 23, 2015 Author Those two things ("best", "bare minimum") don't really go together. Can you tell us more about what you plan on doing with it? File backups? Game hosting? For now File backups Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one - Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 23, 2015 For now File backups Cheap processor and motherboard, your main requirement will be the amount of storage space you need. How many TB? Do you want redundancy? Also, why not just get a pre-built NAS? What else do you think you'll do with it? I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo GalileiBuild Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 24, 2015 Cheap processor and motherboard, your main requirement will be the amount of storage space you need. How many TB? Do you want redundancy? Also, why not just get a pre-built NAS? What else do you think you'll do with it? You can (hard to find) get really low power boards for this, that have a much better HW feature set then any pre-built. For now File backups If you know how to use server core, go with bare minimums. if not bump it up to a dual core (heck at this point a single core CPU would cost more to make then a dual-core). Keep in mind if you RAID and your not spending ~500+ on the RAID card it will be offloading parity checking to the CPU, which will limit write speeds heavily. This wont be an issue if you don't use a parity RAID (i.e. if you RAID 1/0/or JBOD you will be fine). Also if you plan on using 10GBE a 1.4ghz single core wont have the throughput to run at full 10GBE speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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