AtlantaBob
Golden Member
A little background. I want a server to hold some files to be shared between a Mac Mini, a Dell Vostro 1500 (running XP/Windows 7 and or Ubuntu) and an older Dell Latitude running Windows XP.
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Sharing files. Maybe streaming an MP3 every once in a while. Every now and again it'll be used to back up a gig or two of research data. I'm not in any particular hurry, and if this is running in the background I have all the time in the world. 500 GB or maybe 750 GB would be plenty of space. This would be primary storage for files to be accessed over the network and possibly the internet (personal access only). It would be backed up to an external 500 GB Seagate and/or DVDs.
Important thing is that it needs to be accessible to Windows/OS X/Linux computers. I'm thinking of running it as a headless Linux server.... I can put up with a few hours of pain getting SAMBA, etc. set up. But I don't want to have to mess with it every other week or month.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
How low can you go? You're low? Can you go lower? around $300 would be ideal. Lower is even better!
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
The USA.
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
No fan here. Well, I like fans in the computer, but I'm not fanatical about brands.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
I have an old AMD 1700XP Shuttle w/ 2 GB of RAM sitting around. I could underclock it, but I'd think it would still run warm, and it only has PATA HDD connections. I'm thinking that it wouldn't really make sense to run it as a file server, but I'm willing to be corrected.
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Yes, this was interesting: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=27&threadid=2306403 as was the post that it pointed to: http://www.homeserverhacks.com...mediasmart-server.html I'm not really sure that I'd want to pay the extra for WHS (and I'd like the experience of setting up a Linux server.)
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
Stock, or underclocking.
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Now, a month from now...
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Sharing files. Maybe streaming an MP3 every once in a while. Every now and again it'll be used to back up a gig or two of research data. I'm not in any particular hurry, and if this is running in the background I have all the time in the world. 500 GB or maybe 750 GB would be plenty of space. This would be primary storage for files to be accessed over the network and possibly the internet (personal access only). It would be backed up to an external 500 GB Seagate and/or DVDs.
Important thing is that it needs to be accessible to Windows/OS X/Linux computers. I'm thinking of running it as a headless Linux server.... I can put up with a few hours of pain getting SAMBA, etc. set up. But I don't want to have to mess with it every other week or month.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
How low can you go? You're low? Can you go lower? around $300 would be ideal. Lower is even better!
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
The USA.
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
No fan here. Well, I like fans in the computer, but I'm not fanatical about brands.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
I have an old AMD 1700XP Shuttle w/ 2 GB of RAM sitting around. I could underclock it, but I'd think it would still run warm, and it only has PATA HDD connections. I'm thinking that it wouldn't really make sense to run it as a file server, but I'm willing to be corrected.
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Yes, this was interesting: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=27&threadid=2306403 as was the post that it pointed to: http://www.homeserverhacks.com...mediasmart-server.html I'm not really sure that I'd want to pay the extra for WHS (and I'd like the experience of setting up a Linux server.)
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
Stock, or underclocking.
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Now, a month from now...
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
