Cheap NAS/Game Server and Plex Server

[aneil1998]

As the title says, i'm looking to build a PC for the aformentioned stuff. I'm currently stuck on deciding whether to buy a used server on ebay for $150 and pay the expensive shipping charge(approximately $200) to deliver it to where i am(I'm not living in the US) or buy a cheap Core 2 Quad combo for $50.

 

 

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

i would just buy a cheap ass core 2 duo and put a 1tb drive in it , a single server should easily be able to run on a dual core pst : u can also get core 2 quads for 5buck

 

id like to refer u to scrapyard wars on this one

 

pst i used to run a cod4 server(war server 10player max), archeblade server and a ts3 server with full file transfer ( like a nas ) at the same time ona  core 2 duo e5400 and it was all fine ^^

[aneil1998]

12 minutes ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

i would just buy a cheap ass core 2 duo and put a 1tb drive in it , a single server should easily be able to run on a dual core pst : u can also get core 2 quads for 5buck

 

id like to refer u to scrapyard wars on this one

 

pst i used to run a cod4 server(war server 10player max), archeblade server and a ts3 server with full file transfer ( like a nas ) at the same time ona  core 2 duo e5400 and it was all fine ^^

Thanks, i'll look into buying it in parts. Idk why, but that scrapyard wars line made me laugh

[KingCollins]

17 hours ago, aneil1998 said:

Thanks, i'll look into buying it in parts. Idk why, but that scrapyard wars line made me laugh

My first home server was an Intel Pentium 4 HT (1 Core with Hyper Threading) clocked at 3.0Ghz. This thing was SLOW, as in it still had the Windows XP license sticker on the case.  . . . but it cost me nothing, free from work.

 

But once I installed FreeNAS, I had Plex Media server, Sonarr, Radarr, Minecraft Server, a Windows Backup machine and an Apple Time machine backup with no issues!

 

Defo stick with a Core 2 Quad, spend the rest of your money on storage, because I would recommend new hardware for that. 

[SCHISCHKA]

another reason to not buy a server is they are really loud