replace all hard drives in computers with a server

gabecopier4

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is there a way that I could replace my hard drives with a server and just access it from any computer around my house. I would have all the computers have their own hardware such as gpu's and cpu's. But I would like to access my files anywhere around my house.
 
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Computers don't need disks at all. They can be diskless workstations by booting over the network via PXE (Macs use NetBoot) to load the OS from a network share.

However if all you want to do is share some files, you could put only those on the network share.
Computers don't need disks at all. They can be diskless workstations by booting over the network via PXE (Macs use NetBoot) to load the OS from a network share.

However if all you want to do is share some files, you could put only those on the network share.
 
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USAFRet

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Different hard drives are not what makes a server. Software and configuration does.

You can use any PC as a central house repository for files to access from anywhere. Files, as in Doc/Music/Video.

Now...what you seem to be thinking of is a central server, with 'thin clients' all around the house. That is MUCH more work, and actually a lot of money.