I had this idea for a while to build a 1U server or something on those lines with about 10TB Raid 1 storage (20TB Total) to store and play games off it. This idea came after I had to buy 3rd 1TB M.2 SSD to store games on as games start to get bigger in size and I have a lot of them and not having an easy way to play games on my laptop without installing it on my laptop and then copying a save game to my laptop and when I'm done, copying it back to my PC so I have it updated there. It's a bit of a pain sometimes. Havinng the ability to simply connect an ethernet cable to my laptop and be able to play a game with the same save game between my laptop and desktop would be such a cool thing to have.
I'm not sure where to start as I am no network expert and I never built a server in my life, so I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction. The only logical thing to me would be to have it in Raid 1 because it has better read speeds and I have lot of older games that are only on "discs", so if one drive would to fail, it would be a task in it self and who knows if that game will be obtainable in the future, so I would like some redundancy, plus, I will probably end up storing picturs on the server as well and maybe some documents from time to time so redundancy is a must.
Other thing that to me would be a must is gigabit internet so the load times are not too slow, I am hoping for SSD type read speeds if possible. In the perfect world, I would like to match my M.2 speeds that I have right now but I will be happy with SSD speeds. Not sure if 10 gigabit connection would be overkill? My motherboard supports gigabit so I would have to get a 10 gigabit card.
Other thing, budget is unlimited, hence why I don't mind spending 20TB in SSD storage but I also don't want it to be expensive and overkill without a reason, something that will get the job done.
Thanks!
I'm not sure where to start as I am no network expert and I never built a server in my life, so I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction. The only logical thing to me would be to have it in Raid 1 because it has better read speeds and I have lot of older games that are only on "discs", so if one drive would to fail, it would be a task in it self and who knows if that game will be obtainable in the future, so I would like some redundancy, plus, I will probably end up storing picturs on the server as well and maybe some documents from time to time so redundancy is a must.
Other thing that to me would be a must is gigabit internet so the load times are not too slow, I am hoping for SSD type read speeds if possible. In the perfect world, I would like to match my M.2 speeds that I have right now but I will be happy with SSD speeds. Not sure if 10 gigabit connection would be overkill? My motherboard supports gigabit so I would have to get a 10 gigabit card.
Other thing, budget is unlimited, hence why I don't mind spending 20TB in SSD storage but I also don't want it to be expensive and overkill without a reason, something that will get the job done.
Thanks!