Hiya guy & gals,
I haven't posted on here for ages but I need some help in chosing what hardware & software for a home server and I alway got lots of help from here before.
Ideally I want it to be as quite a possible and as compact as possible (I will probably only need around 4 drives max installed)
Now from what I can see an AMD processor would be the best but as I've said I've been out the loop so have no idea on which one i should be going for or what chipset.
Then we come down to the issue of what software i should be using. Last time I looked into these things FreeNAS was what everyone was going for but I'm quite keen to for Ubuntu because of the extra features you can add on. When all I'm going to use my home server for is creating network shares to allow windows PC's to backup to and allow HTPC's to access and possibly stream video to an Xbox (would need to trans-code it as all my video is in MKV). Which makes me think is Ubuntu over kill possibly?
And then what software will I use to backup the windows pc's. Ideally I'd like something that performs similarly to OS X's time machine. I've looked into the options and there seems to be so many I'm completely stumped on which one is best.
so guy's please help spec me a homeserver.
Thanks
Handscombmp