Depending on what you're doing, I have several suggestions. FreeNAS: Excellent FREE product that turns your machine into a NAS/Bittorent client (Transmission)/UPnP server (I use it to stream to a PS3)/iTunes/DAAP server. It has support for hardware RAID and software RAID. Support FTP/SMB(Windows file shares)/NFS/Rsync etc. http://www.freenas.org
Windows 2008: Great server OS, but not cheap. You can run pretty much any services you want from it, like the PS3 streaming server, fold...@home etc. Supports SMB and NFS. ---- Julian On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Anthony Q. Martin <amar...@charter.net>wrote: > 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 >> quilh...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<amar...@charter.net >> >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? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>>> Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3140 - Release Date: 09/17/10 >>>> 02:34:00 >>>> >>>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3140 - Release Date: 09/17/10 >>> 02:34:00 >>> >>>
