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[LATINO WATER BOTTEL]

Hi so I was wondering if you guys could help me find a server that I can easily upgrade (hard drives and maybe CPU and ram). I'm looking for something that I can connect to my home network and have my PC's backup to them but to also run my Plex media server all at the same time. I have about 12 difference devices on my Plex and the computers backing up so I would like something with 10 gb/s Ethernet or be easily upgraded (upgrade to 10gb/s cost included) I dont need anything too crazy for the CPU only something like a 4-6 core like 2.5-3.5 ghz would be fine and possibly 8-16 gb of memory i would love something that i could maybe do a raid on but not necessary. talking about hard drive Im thinking about 8-10 tb for now but not all the drive bays filled up I would say about 6-8 bays and 4-6 bays filled and then have a SSD for boot nothing bigger than 240gb. I would also like to run some VM machine using VM box to test updates for my other devices to make sure it wont break them. 

[TechMan2175]

You can find some good servers on eBay for $200-$300 that would fit your needs 

[LATINO WATER BOTTEL]

5 hours ago, TechMan2175 said:

You can find some good servers on eBay for $200-$300 that would fit your needs 

ahh okay cool thanks ill take a look but do you know any companies or services that allow you to design your own server?

[NTDaws]

4 minutes ago, LATINO WATER BOTTEL said:

ahh okay cool thanks ill take a look but do you know any companies or services that allow you to design your own server?

I think supermicro and puget systems does

[Salv8 (sam)]

4 hours ago, Being Delirious said:

I think supermicro and puget systems does

super micro doesn't, they make the mouther boards and cases that make up a server, 

and Puget systems is only available in the US and is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE

i think http://www.broadberry.com/ ships internationally (and google and Microsoft use their servers)

https://www.thinkmate.com/ i think also ships internationally but i'm not sure...

[brob]

Do you have a budget?

[LATINO WATER BOTTEL]

19 hours ago, brob said:

Do you have a budget?

Yeah I was thinking somthing up to 1000-1500$ 

[brob]

You can run FreeNAS with its Plex plugin. 

 

This is overkill, you could probably make do with an i5-8400 based system. But having lots of ECC memory etc. should provide a very stable, high performance system.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Xeon E3-1225 V6 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($214.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus - P10S-M WS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($198.50 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Transcend - 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Hitachi - Deskstar NAS 8TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($234.99 @ Other World Computing) 
Storage: Hitachi - Deskstar NAS 8TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($234.99 @ Other World Computing) 
Case: Fractal Design - Define Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($74.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Other: Crucial 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 ECC UDIMM ($415.99)
Total: $1476.43
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