Cheapo Homeserver?

Mikensan · December 1, 2016

7 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

http://www.advantech.com/products/68ccaea2-9ff5-4f85-97f2-3d11244b0a08/aimb-272/mod_15a5f387-eec8-48b5-863e-59c41953ff70

I picked up this nifty ITX Socket G2 motherboard off of eBay for $75 USD. Socket G2 being the same socket as my current laptop. It uses the same mobile Intel chipsets and SODIMM RAM. It's literally a laptop board in ITX format... Even a LVDS connector. Once I retire this laptop, it's getting re-built into this.

That, is very cool. I should've gone this route instead of the jetway board I bought for my pfsense setup.

transposedmessenger · December 3, 2016

On 12/1/2016 at 7:45 AM, ha966 said:

Hello,

I have a HP Probook 430 G2, with an i3 4th generation and i was wondering if this could make for a decent homeserver?

I got it for free and i never used it, is freebsd a good option, or is the laptop too slow for the task? I already have a few external hard drives, 2x5TB.

Is this a good idea or should i just use my PC for this task? I have some pcs on my network.

FreeBSD is a fine choice; NAS4Free is even better my homeserver does fine with an old i5. However, I wouldn't recommend opening your server up to the www, too many security concerns.