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yeah i'm actually probably going to put an older samsung 120 gb ssd in the server. gonna buy that for my laptop which has the samsung right now. just accidentally put that on the list since i had the tab open as it will have to be purchased. as far as the psu 15 wd reds spinning up at the same time should only be 315 watts according to the 4 tb spec sheet on the 12v line, the cpu should do 54w max, the fans combined should be about 12 watts and i doubt the mobo or the ram will break me but lets say they along with any other components may take take 75 watts. that's about 450w. i don't think i'm close to making out any of the individual voltages. this system has no discrete video card remember. using the extreme power supply calculator assuming all the drives were 7200(reds are 5900 and the ssds are less) and a couple of reasonable upgrades and assuming 50% capacitor aging and an ungodly number of usb devices drawing power it still requires only 486 watt and recommends 536w. a 600w corsair seemed like it could do the job. a more reasonable estimation of what i might do in the next several years had me requiring at most a 400w by their calc. am i overlooking something? and as far as backup I know I'm being bad but for the vast majority of my stuff that can be gotten again i just run a tree command every week or so and output it to a file which is backed up on google drive. it'll be a pain but i should be able to get most of it back with some work. eventually when i have more money may get some of those 8tb seagate drives for $260 and backup to it then put it somewhere on a shelf at my uncle's house. but till then i have to risk it

Recently got my first job and decided that even before a car I wanted to finally build myself a media server. As it stands I'm using an ancient pc without even sata ports and it runs lubuntu with unimaginable lag. Would probably be better of dual purposing one of the several modern desktops we have in the home but parents refuse to support a media or file server for some reason even though they have been very generous overall in terms of computers. I'm still pretty poor though and want to get a car before too long so I'm on a bit of a budget. talked my parents into getting fiberoptic in a few months when it is in our area so should have 200mbps down 50 mbps up. There may be a few program isos and what not in addition to the media but no irreplaceable data on here so to keep cost down i won't have redundancy or backup of the data drives at least at first. Will just output tree to a txt file once a week and save it on google drive. It will run Plex, sickrage, couchpotato, transmission, and samba. The most it should ever deal with is 3 streams rarely, normally 2 or less and generally one of the streams will be playing to a desktop on the local network so it shouldn't need transcoding on that. Was hoping to get your opinions on the hardware i'm looking at. Future expandability especially in storage size is important to me but I don't want to add any cards to the mobo to get it for some time. Here are the components i'm looking at although these are not necessarily where i will buy them and may have to make substitutions if price changes before I get them. What I am most unsure about is the processor. am i likely to need an i5 for the load i'm planning on putting on it in plex. 1. case - http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0091IZ1ZG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 2. mobo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157500 3. ram - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231666 4. processor - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117447 5. system drive - http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KFAGCWK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 6. data drives (will need more later) 2x - http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EHBERSE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 7. psu - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028

gotta agree with pal i have a script that runs tree on my media drives every week and then saves it in the google drive folder. every couple months i delete the older ones but no real need for that honestly. google gives me plenty of space for some text files