Ethereal_Dragon
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Right now, my network storage consists of only a D-Link DNS-323, and I LOVE this thing. It has two WD20EARS drives installed totaling 4TB of capacity. Where it is lacking is in ability to add more drives, and in the horsepower dept. It is running a single core Marvell 500 Mhz ARM CPU, with 64 meg of RAM. I have about 1 TB of space used up so far between the disks, and it is rapidly shrinking. I recently ripped our CD collection to OGG vorbis, but that is under 15 gigs for right now, until I find the rest of the missing CD's. The killer is that I am looking to at some point rip our DVD library. Essentially trying to build a DIY on-demand system for the house. This is my inspiration but it is WELL out of my price range:
Kaleidescape - Kaleidescape - Servers - 1U Server - Capacity for 225 Blu-ray or 1,350 DVD movies
As for the software, I have been testing out PLEX Media Server, and it works great, but I need a system to run it on, as my desktop and laptop aren't on 24/7 anymore.
I have been looking at possibly a Dell R210, which I have been seeing on Ebay between $600-900. Haven't really looked at any other pre-builts, as this model was recommended because it can be powerful, but is also small, and quite, and doesn't consume much power.
The other possibility would be to build by own server. This would HAVE to be a rackmount server, because I don't want anything else sitting in my office. The Dell 27" monitor makes it hot enough in there. So I would be thinking either a 1U or 2U Super Micro chassis, and honestly, haven't looked at motherboards, CPU's, RAM or any of that yet.
Has anyone here ever built a server? Speak up if you've built a tower server too. That's just not for me, I have a rack, so I want to so with something rackmount, just not something that requires a 4 post rack. Although, I cut my 2 post rack in half, so I suppose if I HAVE to, I can hack something together.
At this point, this is still very much in the research stage, don't even have the funding yet. I'm thinking, err HOPING, maybe 2031Q2 I can start really ramping up and purchasing something.
Kaleidescape - Kaleidescape - Servers - 1U Server - Capacity for 225 Blu-ray or 1,350 DVD movies
As for the software, I have been testing out PLEX Media Server, and it works great, but I need a system to run it on, as my desktop and laptop aren't on 24/7 anymore.
I have been looking at possibly a Dell R210, which I have been seeing on Ebay between $600-900. Haven't really looked at any other pre-builts, as this model was recommended because it can be powerful, but is also small, and quite, and doesn't consume much power.
The other possibility would be to build by own server. This would HAVE to be a rackmount server, because I don't want anything else sitting in my office. The Dell 27" monitor makes it hot enough in there. So I would be thinking either a 1U or 2U Super Micro chassis, and honestly, haven't looked at motherboards, CPU's, RAM or any of that yet.
Has anyone here ever built a server? Speak up if you've built a tower server too. That's just not for me, I have a rack, so I want to so with something rackmount, just not something that requires a 4 post rack. Although, I cut my 2 post rack in half, so I suppose if I HAVE to, I can hack something together.
At this point, this is still very much in the research stage, don't even have the funding yet. I'm thinking, err HOPING, maybe 2031Q2 I can start really ramping up and purchasing something.