New home server, Music/Video/Pictures/Games

Whoa that E3 chip is a monstrosity, I see how that chip can fit in well with what you are intending to do with the server, but keep in mind "power consumption" You'd want something which doesn't consume a lot of power since you have intentions of running it 24/7, I really want a server but I don't get around to pulling out those misplaced components around the house.

For a home server I would want a small case, for personal conveniences when relocating the server something like a bitfenix progidy
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-074-BX
That case features carrying handles and I think It's quite small to, and due to it's design upgrades should be very easy.

And it also depends on what you wish to "fork" out, that E3 appears to be wonderful chip but what are It's power consumptions?

I'm not really experienced in running servers so I don't know much about what components will be useful when creating and running a server, I think you'd want 8 or more GB of ram and possibly at 1600MHz, I used to run a Minecraft server on my PC with my friends It was pretty demanding and wanted a lot of my ram, In the end I gave it a reserve of 2GB ram and it ran quite good on my PC.

How does your current server perform and what problems do you run into when running it? Minecraft servers utilize a lot of cores I think I used Bukkit on mine It probably uses up to 4 cores and possibly more.

Does streaming data and transfering consume alot of your system resources especially CPU and ram?
If it consumes alot of ram I suggest high speed DD3 with good timings as I suggested before a 1600MHZ or more.

Your old CPU in that server must reach 100% easily also, an I3 would be basic for a server but if you wish to multitask with your server and run minecraft I think It would be better to get an I5, the E3 may be a bit "overkill"

Oh and I think an SSD would come in handy and should shorten transfer rates dramatically.
Oh I just looked at that CPU again, I didn't notice you choose the V2, that's surely overkill never mind "a bit"
How much is it from where you intend to buy it from?
Edited by TopicClocker - 8/7/12 at 2:47pm

"My mom has an i7 laptop with 8gb ram, 2gb graphics and the thing, in my opinion, is slow. Make me want to dropkick something."
LOL!

"Hmmmmmmm why an i5??? I don't need the integrated gpu, that's just a waste of Watts. 0_o" I was suggesting an I5 to keep the cost down a little, but wasting watts is a big problem so I guess It's not a good Idea.

"Didn't know Bukkit was multi thread, if that was the case then the E3 would be better than the i3." I just read something and I dont think It is whoops sorry, but I swear It was using more than one of my CPUs, hmm I'll have to look into that.

I've always had mechanical drives, to me SSDs sound pretty good I'll have to invest in one someday, right now I was looking at building a server and I think an SSD or caching SSD would be Ideal for one.

Intergrating raid should be useful, and terrabytes, loads of terrabytes can't get enough of them!

Well according to Wikipedia ECC is Error Correction Ram, I don't think I've never used one but I can possibly see how It can be useful in a server as It corrects errors possibly in real-time so you wont have any freezes or something like that.

L3 Is suppose ably the fastest microkernel, I've also noticed that that E3 only uses the "AVX, SSE4.1,SSE4.2" instruction sets, I'm not entirely sure but compatibility problems may occur whilst trying to run certain applications, you should ask around on the forums before purchasing that chip my CPU has MMX(+) 3DNOW!(+) sse(1, 2, 3, 4A), 86.64. AMD.V.
Considerably a lot more instruction sets, this is making me cautious of that Chip.

And yes Raid 1 is supposed to be for mirroring a set of data on two discs. I've never used Raid before so I don't know how you set it up.

Haha no problem, I was using Intel's website "http://ark.intel.com/products/65729/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1245V2-%288M-Cache-3_40-GHz%29"

My only worry about the processor is that It may not utilize It's full potential, especially since It doesn't look like Minecraft servers are Multi-threaded and I'm unsure what exactly causes Chunk errors, If it doesn't utilize It's full potential It's kind of going to waste, I wanted to make a server with a Core 2 Duo CPU I have lying around but I haven't got around to doing so yet, perhaps go on the Ubuntu forums and maybe they'll give you a run-down on what you need in your system.