Hi guys,
As the title suggests, I am going to building a cheap (ish) server, designed for low power 24/7 usage in mini-ITX form factor using used parts, for two main purposes:
1) To stream music and movies of a wide range of resolutions (480p, 1080p and 4k) to Plex apps on various TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones of various resolutions, within the confines of the house's local network, with possible occasional cloud access to the server when we are out of the house. So yes there will likely be a fair bit of transcoding, though usually not more than on one or two devices at a time.
2) Also to set up automated backups from a laptop and a computer to the server. So that whenever a change to a file or folder is made on one device, it automatically synchronises with the stored backup from that device on the server
COULD SOMEONE PLEASE RECOMMENDED ME A ROUGH SPECIFICATION TO GO FOR:
Perhaps suggest (to reiterate this will be using entirely used parts):
a) A bare minimum spec to aim for
b) A moderate spec
c) A high spec
d) An ultra spec
And some more specific questions:
As the title suggests, I am going to building a cheap (ish) server, designed for low power 24/7 usage in mini-ITX form factor using used parts, for two main purposes:
1) To stream music and movies of a wide range of resolutions (480p, 1080p and 4k) to Plex apps on various TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones of various resolutions, within the confines of the house's local network, with possible occasional cloud access to the server when we are out of the house. So yes there will likely be a fair bit of transcoding, though usually not more than on one or two devices at a time.
2) Also to set up automated backups from a laptop and a computer to the server. So that whenever a change to a file or folder is made on one device, it automatically synchronises with the stored backup from that device on the server
COULD SOMEONE PLEASE RECOMMENDED ME A ROUGH SPECIFICATION TO GO FOR:
Perhaps suggest (to reiterate this will be using entirely used parts):
a) A bare minimum spec to aim for
b) A moderate spec
c) A high spec
d) An ultra spec
And some more specific questions:
- Do I specifically need to buy NAS HDDs or will standard PC ones work fine, particulary if I;m RAIDing?
- Is there any benefit to buying a Xeon processor over standard Intel consumer i3s/i5s?
- I'm guessing Linux or Ubuntu would be the best way forward, rather than using Windows Server?