Building Windows Home Server System

[Perryg114]

I am thinking of building a Windows Home Sever System. I will probably get two 1TB Hard Drives and a full size motherboard with lots of SATA ports so I can add disks down the road if I need to. What do I need for a CPU other than the basic dual core? What is going to be the biggest performance driver other than disk speed and gigabit LAN? I will use the system to do backups of operating systems and store backups of data, photos. movies etc. I will probably dedicate a non WHS disk on the server for real time mirroring of a security camera system. The rest will be in the WHS disk pool.

Perry

 

[Ol Bob]

I've used both an e-6400 2.13Ghz and an e-8200 2.66 GHz cpu's in my WHS box and there's not a dimes worth of difference between them as far as backups go. The 2.66 is snappier in administrative tasks and loading speed of the console and actually runs cooler on average, maybe because its never as heavily loaded as the 2.13 was.I have no knowlege of your camera system needs but my guess is that either will work Ok or anything simialar.
You may consider a larger cpu cooler rather than the stock Intel unit.Something from the gaming and overclocking market will keep your chip cooler in 24/7 service and that has to benifit reliability.

 

[boomhower]

You can see what I used in my sig. It transcodes video on the fly without issue.