Building a Home Server

[SimssmiS]

 

Hello fellow LTT Forum Members,

 

i'm planing on building a home server / NAS (I know its a big difference i just want to combine them) for myself. I am from Germany and work in the games Industry as Gameplay Programmer.

My budget is around 1200€ but i would much prefer spending around 1000€

I thought of running unraid and creating VMs for further uses. 

Raid 5 would be awsome.

 

What shall the server run/ be used for:

- NAS for work and private files in my house (and if possible accessible from the Internet not sure thou) 

- Plex Media Server (transcoding for 1-2 people at a time)

- Git

- Svn

- Win 7 / Linux (maybe OSX) running server applications for games and software not as game servers but for testing

- any Ideas you guys might have 

 

Hardware Ideas:

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1620 LGA 2011 - about 159,00€ on ebay 

Mainboard: Sapphire PURE Black X79N 52043-00-40G - about 250,00€ on ebay 

Ram: 32GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM Kit (4x8GB) 240-pin, 1,5V from Kingston - about 158,89€ on amazon

Storage: 4xWD RED 2tb - about 400€ on amazon

RAID Controller: amazon - 70€ (i'm not familiar with raid cards need your help guys)

CPU Cooler: suggestions please (read further Information first)

Case: suggestions please (read further Information first)

Power Supply: suggestions please (read further Information first)

PSU: suggestions please (read further Information first)

 

Further Information:

I'm not sure if I prefer standalone or Rack mounted cases at the moment so go ahead.

A NAS Looking Case would be great  

A silent Server would be a huge plus but not necessary

Power Consumption is a point here since the server will be running 24/7

This server might go from home use to business use for a small startup but this should not matter that much.

I am also not realy sure on all the parts that I have chosen for now so feel free to suggest others

 

 

I hope you guys have a few tips and tricks for me and fun planing my system 

 

Thanks for Helping

SimssmiS

[SimssmiS]

1 minute ago, aalsuvorov said:

Haven't you already posted this?

Oh yeah forgot to add: Posting this here again after figuring out, that this suits the server area best

[Coaxialgamer]

3 minutes ago, SimssmiS said:

Oh yeah forgot to add: Posting this here again after figuring out, that this suits the server area best

BTW , you can probably find ECC ddr3 for far cheaper on ebay. 32Gb kits sell for almost nothing

[SimssmiS]

6 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

BTW , you can probably find ECC ddr3 for far cheaper on ebay. 32Gb kits sell for almost nothing

then I have to find a ecc capable mainboard (havent found one jet but did not look that well)

would you recomend ecc for this project?

[Coaxialgamer]

7 minutes ago, SimssmiS said:

then I have to find a ecc capable mainboard (havent found one jet but did not look that well)

any server motherboard will have support , along with some x79 boards.

[SimssmiS]

2 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

any server motherboard will have support , along with some x79 boards.

Can I use a doublesocket motherboard with only 1 CPU installed (i find a lot of them cheaper on ebay)

[Coaxialgamer]

Just now, SimssmiS said:

Can I use a doublesocket motherboard with only 1 CPU installed (i find a lot of them cheaper on ebay)

i don't know , that is something i am also trying to find out.

[Andrew_C]

Buy an old second hand server off eBay. I got a lovely DL380 G6 for peanuts.

 

It'll have the RAID controller (mmm lovely RAID 10 in there).

You can run ESXi or Hyper-V.

Lots of ECC memory for next to nothing.

You might even snag dual PSU for redundancy.

[SimssmiS]

40 minutes ago, Andrew_C said:

Buy an old second hand server off eBay. I got a lovely DL380 G6 for peanuts.

 

It'll have the RAID controller (mmm lovely RAID 10 in there).

You can run ESXi or Hyper-V.

Lots of ECC memory for next to nothing.

You might even snag dual PSU for redundancy.

Nice Idea but i would like to build it myself for the purpose of learning. I'm okay with spending some extra money to do so. But maby i might use an old cheap server for some parts (PSU, ECC Memory, Case, Raid Card) so... Nice Idea 
What are good search keywords?

[leadeater]

3 hours ago, SimssmiS said:

Can I use a doublesocket motherboard with only 1 CPU installed (i find a lot of them cheaper on ebay)

 

3 hours ago, Coaxialgamer said:

i don't know , that is something i am also trying to find out.

Yes you can use 1 CPU in a dual socket motherboard.

[SimssmiS]

no further suggestions/ideas? 

[Ginz]

I would suggest using ECC ram with a ZFS filesystem (I am using ZFS on Linux atm) with raidz or raidz2 (note that for raidz, I would recommend using 5 drives, and 6 drives for raidz2).

You can run a hypervisor such as Proxmox and then virtualise your different servers in separate VMs or containers.