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Would be nice to give it a gold rated or platinum PSU since you are running it 24/7.

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Hi all, I have made a list of parts a mostly already own and wondered if it would be good enough for a home server. I am looking to use Windows Server 2012 R2 with AD, DNS, DHCP and obviously file sharing. Would I experience any problems with this (hardware-wise): https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xZMVRG

Please note I don't have much budget as I'm only 16!

 

Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you very much! 

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4 minutes ago, Julian2000nl said:

I don't really trust Toshiba drives myself but that's just my opinion. As a Linux user I'm kind of cringing because of the choice of OS as Linux would be able to do that a lot better(You can run it in headless/terminal only mode, which saves time/system resources as you don't have to load any sort of Desktop).

The Windows Server Desktop GUI isn't that intensive. Even on my Core 2 Duo E7200 Windows Server 2012 machine, the desktop causes no issues. I prefer (and a lot of other people do as well) to have a GUI for management. 

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AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

The Windows Server Desktop GUI isn't that intensive. Even on my Core 2 Duo E7200 Windows Server 2012 machine, the desktop causes no issues. I prefer (and a lot of other people do as well) to have a GUI for management. 

I can hear some linux dude shouting that you can make your own UI a few miles away.

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That's not bad, but you already have a lot of the parts. If you didn't, something like a Core i3 Dell OptiPlex system (used they are cheap) would be fine with a better PSU.

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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Just now, Xenift said:

I can hear some linux dude shouting that you can make your own UI a few miles away.

Yeah, that's my neighbor. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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Just now, Julian2000nl said:

Oh right. I get that Linux may be very intrigueing at first, but I find it very useful especially if you want something to run stable for a long time without interruption from updates, crashes, etc.

Windows Server's never crashed on me. It's been running for 25 days with no issues, even after moving the same install to another system. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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24 minutes ago, Julian2000nl said:

I don't really trust Toshiba drives myself but that's just my opinion. As a Linux user I'm kind of cringing because of the choice of OS as Linux would be able to do that a lot better(You can run it in headless/terminal only mode, which saves time/system resources as you don't have to load any sort of Desktop).

Windows Server can run without any GUI as well. Well at least 2016 can, not sure about previous ones.

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Hydrogen server: Intel i3-10100 | Cryorig M9i | 64 GB Crucial Ballistix 3200MHz DDR4 | Gigabyte B560M-DS3H | 33 TB of storage | Fractal Design Define R5 | unRAID 6.9.2

Carbon server: Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX100 S7p | Xeon E3-1230 v2 | 16 GB DDR3 ECC | 60 GB Corsair SSD & 250 GB Samsung 850 Pro | Intel i340-T4 | ESXi 6.5.1

Big Mac cluster: 2x Raspberry Pi 2 Model B | 1x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B | 2x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

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I use GUI cause of compatibilty with some server programs and if you wanna create "home server" get 2 x 4 TBs and install Windows Server 2012 R2 and then setup FTP server, printer share, domain and Microsoft Exchange (you can add if you want this is just usual home server setup)(I configure servers). I do not recommend installing something that requires server to use a lot of resources ex. Hyper -V. If you are setting up DNS server and DHCP server your IP MUST BE STATIC or your domain config will be completely broken and it wont work. You will have to change IP every single day in network settings

My Rig : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MTBd2R

My VM Server : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rPR6gL

My Backup Server : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cRQYYr

My Storage Server : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tzzR9W

My Router : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bMPN4C

My Laptop : Lenovo Z575 with 6 GB RAM (1866 MHz), Crucial MX300 525 GB & Western Digital 2 TB (Removed optical drive)

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