BYO home server or purchase name brand system

[lmlavinjr]

I want to get a good home server to share music, movies, data and backup home systems.

I am wondering support wise if it is better to put together your own system from parts or buy a preconfigured system from HP, Dell, Intel or SuperMicro.

 

[Gam3r01]

I would say purely for support, build your own. Something goes wrong with it, you can narrow it down and send in that specific part (some gpus have a double life time warranty for example) for rma and replace a single part and know the status and know when it will be fixed, rather than wait for hp to tell you its broken and take 200 bucks and a few months to fix it.

 

[lmlavinjr]

Is this build too much? If so ... please suggest something else.

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/lmlavinjr/saved/2a0w

 

[Gam3r01]

I dont know too much about specific server builds, but that seems like it would get the job done, and is in the right price range.