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post #11 of 15
9/9/11 at 10:51pm
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Originally Posted by dhenzjhen View Post
Kewl!! originally I am using 6.0 and upgraded all the way up tp 7.1 and stucked there 'coz I got lazy, lol!! I am using old 3ware 8000 series with
2 400GB drives. My server is in a old compaq presario skeleton chassis
with PSU outside haha ugly!!
FreeBSD is so damn stable! In my work place there are a few servers with more than years of run time, that have never been updated to newer versions of freeBSD because there was no need for it. They still do what they are supposed to do, flawlessly and whenever you need.

Mine is up for 2 months and I'm sure I haven't done my best when setting it up for my samba server. Actually just the basic for networking, few security adjusts and clvc to play videos whenever I connected hook it up to a TV.


Sorry bro, but I think my case is sexier than yours.
But yours is also beautiful, on the inside, that is.


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Originally Posted by breenemeister View Post
I looked into Linux/Samba for a home server for my Athlon 64 3200+ with 2 GB of RAM, but I went ahead and bought Windows Home Server 2011 64 bit from newegg for around $50. It should be arriving soon. Apparently it won't install with any less than 2 GB of RAM. The only issue I have is limitation to SATA 1 speeds. I have to use hard drives that have a jumper to limit them to 150 MB/s. Not all drives can do this. I have a 1 TB WD A/V ready to go in there.
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Originally Posted by CP2 View Post
Shoot, let us know how that works out. But can windows home server do multi platforms? because I have windows and mac an linux.

Forget about windows server. Meh. That is pathetic. Windows own the home user market, but on the server wise, linux dominates and with a good reason.
Believe me, it will be not only cheaper, but also FASTER AND SIMPLER to set up a samba network on any linux machine. Ubuntu, openSUSE, FreeBSD, mint, any distro you want.
Limited speeds? Minimun RAM? BAH! what a joke!
My file server has 512mb ram and that an OVERKILL for it. And no, I'm not limited to any speeds and I can actually take advantage of faster file systems. What slows me down is my network, not my computer hardware.
Edited by EduFurtado - 9/9/11 at 10:56pm
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post #12 of 15
9/9/11 at 11:11pm
Yeah bro I'd say freebsd rocks!! stable, fast, secure and easy to compile
the kernel as well as upgrading the userland. But to be honest software
RAID is PITA with freebsd gvinum and openbsd oh man so much pain, lol!
here's my freebsd server by the way =) http://rt66.ath.cx
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9/10/11 at 12:15am
I had a Linux server running for about the last 6 months or so on a Atom D525. It was a router, file server, torrent box and 4x transcoding audio streaming server. The CPU use was typically around 20-30%. I could have added more streams. To be fair I had a Perc5i card for raid5. I'm not sure how well the Atom would have handled software raid on top of what it was already doing.

I upgraded recently so it is gone now but it was a very decent box.
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9/11/11 at 12:43pm
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<snip>By the way, my avatar is a picture of my home server sitting on it's marvelous shoe box case

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that is just brilliant!


*bsd or a linux distro should be more than enough to run a home server (i've been using slackware for almost a year now for this purpose.) any p4 era system would be suitable for this, if you want to go super cheap, i saw a few dell systems on their site the other day going for like $250, they were dual core amd athlon II's, which should be plenty of horsepower for a home server.
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9/12/11 at 6:18am
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that is just brilliant!


*bsd or a linux distro should be more than enough to run a home server (i've been using slackware for almost a year now for this purpose.) any p4 era system would be suitable for this, if you want to go super cheap, i saw a few dell systems on their site the other day going for like $250, they were dual core amd athlon II's, which should be plenty of horsepower for a home server.
I thought about buying a premade, but those computers seem to lack the room for expansion. OR at least the stats tell me this. Most have only one extra bay for an HDD and then they lack the amount of SATA ports that I'd like to have. I'd like to have 3-4 hard drives in a raid5 configuration. I don't think these premades will let me do that unless I'm in the dark and you guys know something that I don't. Let me know!
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