What he said. I've got a rack of servers here at the house, but I wont begin to offer such services since I know my ISP will throw a fit, and 2Mbit/s upstream isn't going to make network load much better than it is now.
Marvell 6281 1.2GHz 512MB RAM 4 SATA slots 2 eSata Honestly, for the price, I'd hand build this. It's perfect for serving files at home, but I'd want a little more processing power for server duty. That and the embedded linux thing doesn't sit well with me.
Yep you. Just a heads up, newegg is $50 cheaper. If I had a job, I would build another server. Between the MB, proc and mem, you are in for under $300. IIRC it was a 3.0ghz dual core, 4gb of mem. Then you throw windows home server on it and as many drives as you can. I am running WHS at home, and it has been great. 3TB of storage, Boxee and XBMC read off of it no problem, can get to it from the web, and uses 70 watts at idle (when I have it on). And it is so easy to use, the GF uses it and doesn't even realize that she is. Russ
Yeah, all my servers are hacked together from stuff I had lying around. You should be able to build a functioning NAS box for under 600, that is including some storage.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433 Then 4 of these. I want 4 drives and small footprint.
As a person that replaces hundreds of Seagate drives a year due to the "click of death" and constant bad sectors, let me please try to dissuade you. I've had one WD drive go bad, and it was a mechanical failure caused by me manhandling the SATA connector. Please, if you care about your data...
I have been running the WD green drives (750GB) for about 3 years now. Of the 4 I have in my server and the 1 extra in my tower and the 4 in my brother-in-laws server, I had 1 DOA, other than that they have been spot on. My server with a 450w PS, and a older MB, ram, amd proc, with 4 of the green drives is drawing about 70 watts at idle. They might not be the fastest drives out there, but for a home server that is basically a storage place that streams movies/music, they are more than fast enough. Russ
a friend of mine work @ a big fancy computer place and got it for $600 we are making a cooking show for me so i can get famous! but also its for storage. i dont know much about it really but its a QNAP TS-419P turbo NAS with iSCSl whatever that is.
MNS is now hosted on 2 servers. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40201 That is the proc on each server, and each server is running with 360MB of ram. Russ
ok just wondered if you needed anymore. be glad to help my subaru family < heartfelt plea for free membership
