Possible WHS questions

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delvryboy

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I'm thinking of building a WHS box that will mainly be used for file storage and streaming HD movies/music to 2 computers and a macbook.

Currently I have the box in my sig that I use as the main PC/HTPC/storage and an AMD box at the rear of the house. I do a lot of video encoding and would probably leave that duty to my main PC.

What would be minimum requirements for something of that nature? I plan on moving my samsung drives to the WHS and utilize it for all of my storage.

Would a Athlon64 x2 chip and 2gb of ram do the trick? I also have a 2.4 P4(non-HT) w/ 512mb of DDR laying around.
 
WHS itself can run quite well on a minimal config. Plenty of P4-based systems running WHS if that tells you anything. The twist here is that you want to stream videos from it as well - and depending on how you intend to do that and if you will need on-the-fly transcoding - as these things can create some CPU demands that otherwise you wouldn't have on the server.
 
I would basically using the WHS box for all storage. The actual processing power for play back would be from my quad box.
 
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*wave* at Delvryboy

I run WHS on a sempron LE-1100 - single core, very low power, 1 gig of ram

Does fine for streaming uncompressed bluray, my network speed limits throughput.

Of course, if you want to do things like server-side RAR archiving/unarchiving, or some heavy on the fly transcoding, it may suffer. But for a storage box, you will be fine with pretty much anything to be honest.
 
Can I mix drive speeds in the pool? 2 of my 1TB drives are 5400 and the other 2 are 7200.
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Mixing drives in WHS is not a problem. It's actually one of the huge benefits of using WHS. Your drives can be different speeds, sizes and can be both sata and pata.
 
yup, mix anything really, which is why I moved from raid 5 to WHS. Can easily upgrade a single 1tb drive to a 2tb drive if needed, rather than upgrade the entire array.
 
Still picking up the parts for this. Going to be using a 5050e and 2GB of DDR2.

The WHS I have is PP1, is there an update? I have seen mention of PP2 but I didn't see an option for updates at MS.
 
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