Advice on building a SFF file server

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funstuie

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I am looking to build a small NAS/Fileserver. I currently have a readynas (before it became netgear) and it's been great but it's not exactly fast and this one is loud despite changing the fans etc.

I would like to build something small, quite and with low power consumption. It will be used a file server mainly serving media to my PCH in the living room. It would be handy to be able to use the box for torrent downloading and usenet.

Looking to put 4x1TB hard drives as storage and a 2.5" hard drive for the OS (probably Server 2008 but I would be happy to try linux if I could find an idiots guide).

I would like to fit all of the above in a Sugo SG02B if possible.

The Intel D945GCLF2 looks to be a perfect mobo but the 2gb ram seems limiting. Would this be OK or can you suggest anything else?

I would also need a cheap raid card, I am not too bothered about Raid unless it offers any speed gain. I will be using the old readynas to back this server up regularly.

So any advice appreciated.
 
Ram is more than enough. The SG02 is also more than enough. I mustered in 4 3.5" drives + 2 x 2.5" drives + 2 optical drives and dual video cards.

:D

You should look at a 3in2 drive unit and you can then squeeze out an extra hard drive. Your 2.5's should have no problem wedging in above the 5.25" drives.

Lastly, you should look at WHS.
 
Ockie said:
Ram is more than enough. The SG02 is also more than enough. I mustered in 4 3.5" drives + 2 x 2.5" drives + 2 optical drives and dual video cards.

:D

You should look at a 3in2 drive unit and you can then squeeze out an extra hard drive. Your 2.5's should have no problem wedging in above the 5.25" drives.

Lastly, you should look at WHS.
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Thanks I found the 3in2 Lian Li unit so I will order one of them with the case.

Can I run a torrent client and usenet client in WHS?

prostuff1 said:
check out unRaid. It's fairly simple to set up and the OS runs from a flash drive. You can read up on it here, here and here.
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Thanks, that looks interesting. I will have a read.
 
WHS is just a Windows Server 2003 with the Windows Home Server application on top, so it'll run any application that will run under Windows Server 2003 (like uTorrent for example :))
 
Yes you can install just about an windows application on WHS.
 
funstuie said:
Can I run a torrent client and usenet client in WHS?
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Absolutely. The best choice is to get them running as a service (like I do with uTorrent). Then just use the web interface to do your daily stuff. However, with torrents on WHS I would highly recommend downloading to a location NOT in the pool (if you have a large OS drive, just make a small directory on the D: drive and download there and then move to the //share).

I also have my PVR software on my WHS box, as well as a couple dozen other apps. Good stuff.
 
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