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I have a dismissed HP proliant microserver that I wanted to use like a media server for my house where PCs connected to home network can stream videos/photos from. The unit has a valid Windows Server 2008 r2 foundation Key but I can't manage to install It and maybe Windows server isn't even the best option for my use. Which os should I use?

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6 minutes ago, Atra1n2 said:

Have you considered FreeNAS with a plex plugin installed?

I'm an absolute noob on this matter, all inputs are welcome. Ideally I'm looking for something free. Could you give me more infos regarding your suggestion?

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3 minutes ago, mbox said:

I'm an absolute noob on this matter, all inputs are welcome. Ideally I'm looking for something free. Could you give me more infos regarding your suggestion?

It's free. It typically runs from a flash drive plugged into the PC, and formats your drives into a ZFS array similar to RAID. ZFS is great for error checking a correction. FreeNAS likes lots of RAM, about 1 GB ram/1TB of storage. FreeNAS has a lot of plugins you can install, it can run VMs. You can set up storage shares and users with tiered access. It's a very powerful NAS OS. I'd recommend watching some videos about it.

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7 minutes ago, mbox said:

I'm an absolute noob on this matter, all inputs are welcome. Ideally I'm looking for something free. Could you give me more infos regarding your suggestion?

this might help

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Thank you guys!

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