1st, this is for home use. But I frequently work on "work" stuff at
home, so I do consider a lot of my "data" to be critical to me...but I
have a lot of it spread between multiple computers (work and home).
So, what would I like to do?
1) store all of my stuff in one place....so I would need RAID and/or backup.
2) be able to stream music to any PC in the house, including phones and
slate computers (future)
3) be able to download stuff from/to my TIVO to/from it. (the TIVO files
do get big and I really don't need to back those up); but I want my
TIVOs to "see" this server.
4) sync folders between laptop and server (via wireless network)
Ultimately, it would be nice to just store all my stuff on it and have
it protected and backed up. Then get to it all from over network
connection from any PC.
I don't need to stream movies. Though neat to do, I can get by without that.
Thanks.
On 9/17/2010 11:15 AM, Richard Quilhot wrote:
RAID would be recommended, if you will be storing critical data and need
faster I/O responses.
The backup included with Win Server will be the bare basics, I would go with
a more robust product like Backup Exec.
The bigger question is what do you want it to do?
Rick Q
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>wrote:
So, no one here builds their on file servers? Or, are people just using
NAS devices?
On 9/14/2010 8:00 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I've got an extra PC here with a Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3GHz with 2GB ram in
a NZXT case. It's got a rather low end mobo but it does have 1Gbit
networking.
I'm thinking of turning this into a file server rather than buying a NAS.
I'm thinking of Windows Server 2008 since I mainly have Windows 7 running
here.
Other than backups, what else can I get such a system to do? Does Windows
Server include all of the necessary software or would I have to buy
something else for streaming, etc. I assume it has a network backup tool.
Would some kind of raid configuration be wise for this? Pros& Cons?
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