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    Home Media Sever

    Hi

    I was thinking of networking all my computers Main desktop, laptop and PS3 with a home media sever.

    Hardware wise I was thinking of amd dual core I have 500Gb hard disk but was wondering what hard ware setup I need?

    I was also thinking of ubuntu linux for setting up network is this a good idea will it be tricky setting up the network? I know its better for wired rather than wireless but if I did go wireless what kit would I need. Can I also set it up to remote dial in from external locations?

    Opinions would be most welcome

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    Re: Home Media Sever

    You really don't need a powerful system at all. serving files isn't a difficult task for modern hardware.

    There are several linux distributions that are tailored specifically to this kind of thing. FreeNAS is one, there are others. They can even be booted from a CD, leaving the drive purely for storage.

    Opening it up for remote access should be difficult either, it's just a case of how you want to access the files on the server remotely, FTP, web, etc.

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    this should be waiting for me when i get home, and 5 x 120 day evaluations of windows home server are in the post
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    Re: Home Media Sever

    I may have an 754 AMD 3200+, 512mb RAM, ASUS K8N-E motherboard (SATA RAID/ IDE / GB Lan etc) with passive cooling for sale. It used to my file server for the exact same job but I recently VMd it. The Scythe infinity does a very good job even under 100% load. and with 5 HDD it only took a total of 130W from the wall. When under no load it took around 70W

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    Re: Home Media Sever

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post


    this should be waiting for me when i get home, and 5 x 120 day evaluations of windows home server are in the post
    Woah, I didnt realise shuttles had become that cheap?!

    Where'd you get it from?

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    that was from overclock.co.uk, but a few different places are doing at around that price. youll see why its cheap when you see the specs, but its bargaintastic when compared to an atom/epia when you factor in their bloody expensive m-itx cases
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    Re: Home Media Sever

    Hmmm, the only thing I'd be a little concerned with is the 100w power supply, although with a low power processor etc etc, I suppose it'd cope with it.

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    it will cope with 2 3.5" hdd's and a dual core celery. thats enough for me will probably drop something like this in in the future http://www.afterhours.co.uk/sitecom-...source=froogle as iv got the enclosures already. so a touch of expandability available still
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    Re: Home Media Sever

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    You really don't need a powerful system at all. serving files isn't a difficult task for modern hardware. .....
    I completely agree.

    In fact, a relatively low-powered machine is in many ways, preferable. It cuts heat, cuts noise, cuts power consumption and hence cuts running costs. And for most home servers, power isn't really needed.


    As a comparison, I know a major supermarket that was running all front-office (checkouts, etc), and back-office transaction handling (though not admin systems) from 500MHz P3's until pretty recently. Okay, that's not serving media files, but it might be supporting 40 or more concurrent users online at a time.

    For a home media server, a good network connection is probably a good idea, and if needs demand, maybe RAID. But I'd have thought anything above about 1.5GHz was probably overkill for most people, and you'd probably get away with less than that. Maybe look around for an old redundant machine if you don't have one, and just shove a decent network board and a couple of SATA drives in it?

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    when you have the extra power you can do some fancy things like transcoding and "running a VM of XP for remote desktop on a pocket pc". which is pretty much the best thing ever
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    Re: Home Media Sever

    Thanks for the replys I was wondering if I built a PC and used linux ubuntu would my PC and PS3 be able to see the files on the sever. I thought windows couldn't see a linux formatted HDD. Would it be able to stream to my PS3.

    Am I better off with a NAS box http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Synol...x-HDD-Capacity or http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/aca...2_WHS_A3i.html

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    Re: Home Media Sever

    im using an VIA Nehemiah 800mhz mini itx board with a gig ram for my server , I can't hear it and it is used for file serving mainly but it acts as my dhcp server too, Im using a Fedora based server distro called Amahi All my windows pcs see the folder/shares etc by setting up users, its really easy

    http://www.amahi.org/

    try it you wont be disappointed

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