Building a Home Media Server from old gaming computer

[ChazzerB314]

I've been very interested in building a Home Media Server and am having trouble finding build guides for it.

I've got a i5-4670k with a Asus Maximus Hero VII and 16GB of RAM. I've I know I need some drives, but what else is needed? Just a case that can fit the drives and a PSU?

I plan of running unRAID and Plex.

I really have no idea what makes a good Home Media Server or if I should scrap what I have and start fresh or find a recycled server. Any suggestions?

I won't be doing anything on this system. No gaming or streaming. It will be a stand-alone server.

 

[why_wolf]

You're on the right path.

Just find a case that fits and has enough HDD slots for what you want. unRAID should take care of the rest and be fairly simple if all you want is to run to its as a NAS/Plex machine.

 

[failboat]

Doing it in windows is by far the easiest.
There isn't much more than making sure your pc doesn't sleep.

I really like proxmox. it keeps the options open.
proxmox is free and is for running vms or linux containers.
if you don't go with windows. i imagine you will be searching how to do things in linux very quickly.
which isn't a bad thing to learn if you are interested.

part wise don't use a gpu. psu should be 80+ with no gpu it won't need to be more than 250W.

 

[RememberThe5th]

-_-, sorry, phone.

 

[jsmithepa]

That's fine, home file severs don't need high performance, like if u running a video studio.

What I don't like the old pc solution here is, the dang box is gonna be sipping, what 50? watts even at idle. Not green.