It's not too bad. Intel Xeon i7 2.5ghz 24GB RAM 2TB HDD x2 RAID 1 1GBPS £120 month Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
i got around to messing with it tonight, it turns out it is the replacement drive that has failed. i cant get it to talk at all. it doesnt show up under BIOS or anything. thats the same way the drive it replaced failed. at least seagates RMA process went smoothly last time!
Nice I like it I've got a patch panel coming tomorrow and a rack mount kit for the Draytek. FTTC going in tomorrow as well so will be having a network overhaul. Already ran 40M of cable around the house and still another 4/5 rooms to re-wire right into the 48port GBPS switch.
where and how much was your rack mount kit for your draytek? I need to get one for mine, I have a panel and all the cable layed and a 24 port switch, need ears for the draytek and a small rack and then my house set up will be complete!
I'm just posting this in here because it's not really a spec me thread yet and it would be nice to get the thoughts of people with a bit of interest in and knowledge about servers etc . I've currently got a small media/file server running Freenas on an old Dell PC , it's great and works well but I'd like to be able to get a bit more from it . What I'd like to do is have a 'box' that is my media/file server , backup and can stream TV ( freesat ) to some XBMC clients . So my plan is to set up the server using WHS2011 as a backend for Media Portal . WHS2011 can deal with the server duties , backups etc and Media Portal can deal with the TV part . As far as I can find out by lots of Googling this should be fine So first question .... am I planning anything stupid so far Hardware wise is where Google isn't really being much help . I've got myself a rack mount 4U server case from Ebay to put it all in . The idea so far is to set it up with half the drives as the server and half as the backup . I'm going to run two psu's so that a big failure of the psu doesn't take out both the main drives and the back up , I've found out how to switch both psu's from one mobo etc . I should also say that the backup isn't for anything too critical ... just films and music etc that I can either resource or have on dvd/cd . It's really just to save spending days reripping god knows how many films if a drive dies . The important stuff , family pictures is backed up to Idrive and to a usb drive that I keep at work . My main question is what sort of hardware .... mobo , cpu , ram do I need to run this on . I'm sort of thinking that an Itx Atom board won't deal with streaming TV to a couple of clients and a torrent or backup at the same time ...... I'm not necessarily after a list of specific components more you need a dualcore this and 4 gig of ram sort of thing ... although if you want to suggest particular things that would be even better . I made a start ... satellite tuner card here. tia
My server does all that - I don't stream TV no more, but I have in the past, I just moved the TV card to my main pc as no one else in my house used it accept me. Transcoding media off my server and it runs out of legs pretty quick. Curious as to why you want 2 powersupply's, as it doesnt sound like one is going to be fall over, it just sounds like one will keep powering stuff while the rest of the system is off, or some stuff won't be powered while the rest of the system is (depending on which psu fails, should either of them fail) - personally i wouldnt do that. psu's breaking doesnt mean in turn it breaks the disks its connected to.
I think you are right about the two psu thing . I 'thought' that if the psu went bang big time it could take out the hdds too .... after a bit more research what likely to cause that is a big power surge ... just as likely to take both psu's out at the same time . So not much point in that So I'm looking at a decentish dual core cpu and 4gb of ram ?
I am thinking about upping my RAM to 8gb in my server- i think if you want to secure some kind of future proofing, then you should consider 8. Depends, you can get a second hand i5-750 for about £60, ideally I would prefer a quad in my server rather than a hyperthreaded dual core, I did used to have an I7-860 in my server, but only for about 2 days as I was worried it would melt everything as my server is so small, i never even mounted it in the case when I had the 860 in the board. Once again, for future proofing you should look at a quad. ^^ Thats all just my opinion, and that I always want MOAR POWER.
Thinking dual core might be more my budget Just found this bundle on ebuyer - link that looks like it might do the job. Add a corsair 500w psu , whs2011 and the satellite card and the whole lot is just under £350 ..... I can always upgrade the cpu and add ram if it's struggling ?
Dell Powerconnect - Can't remember the model number but it's 48 port GBPS with 4 Fiber connections too. EDIT: http://www.gekko-computer.de/Netzwerk/Dell_PowerConnect_2748_48x10/100/1000_4x_SFP_i10_8013_0.htm Mine cost me £70 though
i am gonna build mine at some point. just need to find the right rack mount case and waiting for 3tb drives to drop in price a bit
