Server Motherboard vs Normal Gaming Motherboard

[RagingRabbits]

I wanted to build a server as my home work office work computer because I want it to be redundant and never to fail me.My job is important so I cant afford to have my pc to fail even for a day or an hour , but I currently do not have the money to buy a server . I was wondering if i used a server motherboard and used a i5 3570k and also a few hard drives on RAID 1 would I get the same redundancy as a server ? I would not be gaming on my pc .
Sorry if my English is not good. Thank You .

 

[boosted1g]

A server motherboard is a no frills motherboard that does not have the fancy gamer features but supports server grade intel xeon processors and supports ram that has ecc and/or buffering.

If you get a quality motherboard from ASUS, Gigabyte, or ASROCK you will be just fine getting a desktop grade motherboard instead of a server one.

As far as RAID 1:
Raid 1 provides great disk redundancy in case of a drive failure. Raid 1 is not however a backup solution.
If your Windows drive is in raid 1 and say you get infected or say a windows update corrupts the drive - with RAID 1 you now have an exact copy of that screwed up hard drive, not very helpful. For backups the best route is to have both file and full hard disk image backups. For my clients I have file backups run twice a week and full hard drive backups run once a month; I use syncback for the file backups and macrium reflect for the disk images

 

[kanewolf]

You would not get the redundancy that a purpose built server has. Servers have dual (redundant) power supplies and error correcting (ECC) RAM. Those are two of the most frequent failures. To have a reasonable level of noise, I would recommend a used HP ML350 (G5 or G6) or Dell equivalent. These are tower config servers with dual socket motherboards and hot swap power supplies. A ML350G5 doesn't have any PCIe x16 slots which could make finding a graphics card difficult. The G6 does have a PCIe x16 slot.

 

[RagingRabbits]

So I was wondering if it is possible to build a Xeon workstation with 600 dollars .?