If I'm running Win7 on everything, is there an advantage to running
Windows Server 2008? I can get the software so cost is not much of an
issue here.
On 9/17/2010 1:15 PM, Julian Zottl wrote:
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.
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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?
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