sspell Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Started this thread seems the other one was for rack mounts This server also does double duty as a windows media center pvr. LIAN LI Model PC-Q25B Mini Server Case ASRock A75M-ITX Motherboard : Upgraded to Asrock FM2A85X-ITX Motherboard 7 sata ports wow!! AMD A4-3400 Llano APU : Upgrade to AMD A10-6700 Richland APU Intel Pro 1000 PT dual Network N.I.C. Corsair XMS3 1333 8gb Memory : Upgrade to Patriot Signature DDR3 1600 8gb Memory Agility 4 256gb ssd O.S. & Feeder Drive : Upgraded to Samsung 840 Pro 128gb SSD Crucial C300 128gb ssd Feeder Drive Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 2tb Archive Drive SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1tb Archive Drive Windows 8 Pro & Media Center O.S. : Upgraded to WHS 2011 O.S. I hope to upgrade the two archive hard drives to 2 3tb WD Reds soon. This has run rock solid so far. Note: A few upgrades this is running great also with one exception. Yet to get usb 3.0 controller working seems to be a driver issue Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Mr_Smartepants Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 I love that case. Your build looks very similar to a "what-if" project here: http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5578-can-you-build-your-own-gen8-equivalent-microserver/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Very much so. But then again, that looks very close to my desktop PC as well. It is a nice, cheap box. And those AMD APU CPUs are nice processors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sspell Posted July 17, 2013 Author Share Posted July 17, 2013 Tried to build this as least expensive as possible and low power for a small desktop server and media center. I never seen your proposed setup Mr. Smartepants till your link. Funny how this is so similar but that is a budget project too. I'm getting around 40 to 60mbs high end out of it. The amd apu is indeed very good low cost, low power 65watt tdp cpu. I had most the hardware already running media center so most I had in it was to replace the case with the lian-li. That case is amazing with space for 3 @ 2.5 drives and 5 @ 3.5 drives and still be as small as it is. The motherboard only has 4 sata and 1 esata you could use for internal drives. But all in all I like it for a small low power home media server it does that job well for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 saitoh183 Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 My server started out as my Desktop and then became a dedicated server when i was tired of having to manage data for the entire network from my desktop Hardware: Case : Thermaltake Armor+ Motherboard: Asus P5KLP-AM EPU CPU: Core 2 Duo E6300 Ram: 2X2GB OCZ (OCZ2G8002G) PSU: Seasonic M12II 620W HDD internal Cage: Coolmaster 4-in-3 HDD External bay: Mediasonic Probox Cards: Syba SD-SATA2-2E2I 4 Chnl SATA II Card , SY-PEX40008 4-port SATA RAID Controller , Mediasonic ProBox HP1-SS3 PCI-Express 2.0 x1 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card Storage: 64GB Adata SP900 (OS only) 250GB WD (OS Mirror...Raid1) 400GB Seagate (Application/script/Downloads) 1TB Hitachi (DP data) 5x2TB Seagate (DP data) 2TB Toshiba (DP data) 2TB Hitachi (DP data) 2TB WD Green (Parity drive for Flexraid) HDD External: 2TB WD MYBook Live (connect to network) Only stores Backups of machines on network Software on Server(always running only): OS: WHS2011 Drivepool SB Scanner Goodsync VMplayer(XBMC second copy) MYSQL XBMC NZBDrone Sabnzbd Playon Flexraid Teamspeak server Teamviewer Various scripts via Task scheduler Server is on 24/7 I still have room left for expansion inside case (3 more drives) then i will have to get a second Mediasonic probox (probably a 8 Bay) Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sl4ppy Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 I might as well jump in here too. Hardware Case : CoolerMaster Elite 120 Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe CPU: Core i3-2105 3.1GHz Ram: CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Optical: Blu-Ray drive. Cards: RocketRaid 644L 6Gb/s 4x eSata External Enclosure: 2x Sans Digital 8-Bay eSATA RAID 0/1/10/5/JBOD Tower Storage Enclosure OS: Windows Server 2012 Essentials UPS: CyberPower 1500AVR provides about 40 minutes of up time on battery power for both the server and the 2 arrays Total storage using 9 of the 16 total bays is ~24Tb. This machine functions as the heart of my entire house network. It servers every TV in the house's mediaPC with DVD/BluRay content (over 700 ISOs, etc) as well as all our various other network storage needs. Really it's main function is MyMovies and and auto-ripping and storing DVDs & BluRays. I can walk up, throw a disc in the drive, and come back later and remove it from the ejected tray. The entire rip, cataloging, adding to database, etc., is 100% hands off. I can optionally have it auto convert the ISO to an mp4 (or other) automagically (thus the i3 cpu). I simply love it. The entire house is wired with shielded Cat6 and it sits next to the switch in a closet of my office on a shelf, no monitor or keyboard attached, completely managed remotely and it works like a charm. Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SantiagoDraco Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Here's my current server setup: Hardware Case: Rosewill Challenger Gaming Case (repurposed) with 5 internal and 5 external bays. Only 3 used currently. Motherboard: EVGA Sabertooth x58 CPU: Intel Core i7 950 RAM: 6x 2GB Corsair 12800 DDR3 modules (12GB total) Network: Intel i350 Dual Port PRO/1000 adapter teamed to 2Gbps Switch: D-Link DGS-1216T 16 port Gigabit Managed Switch HDD Controller 1: RocketRaid 2522 controller with 8x esata connectors running to 3 (soon to be 4) Sans Digital 8bays (see below) HDD Controller 2: Chipset based. External Enclosures: 3x Sans Digital 8 bay eSata enclosures hosting (47TB total): 1x Intel 160gb SSD (OS) 1x Seagate 1tb drive (OS backup) 2x 4TB Seagate 6x 3TB Seagate and Hitachi drives 10x 2TB Seagate and Hitachi drives (9 in a 16gb raid 5 array soon to be migrated to Drive Pool) 5x 1.5TB Seagate drives (being replaced over time by 4TB drives) Storage Config: Array: 16gb Raid 5 Drive Pool: 30.9TB (100% duplicated) Misc drives: 1 1.5 not in pool) UPS: APC 1500 Software and Services OS: Windows Home Server 2011 (may migrate to 2012 essentials) Storage: Drive Pool 2.0 Media Management: My Movies 2011 and Plex Remote Management: Splashtop, RDP and Windows Home Server remote access web Content Services: Sick Beard and SABnzbd XBMC: XBMC central user profile store and MySQL db. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Started this thread seems the other one was for rack mounts
This server also does double duty as a windows media center pvr.
LIAN LI Model PC-Q25B Mini Server Case
ASRock A75M-ITX Motherboard : Upgraded to Asrock FM2A85X-ITX Motherboard 7 sata ports wow!!
AMD A4-3400 Llano APU : Upgrade to AMD A10-6700 Richland APU
Intel Pro 1000 PT dual Network N.I.C.
Corsair XMS3 1333 8gb Memory : Upgrade to Patriot Signature DDR3 1600 8gb Memory
Agility 4 256gb ssd O.S. & Feeder Drive : Upgraded to Samsung 840 Pro 128gb SSD
Crucial C300 128gb ssd Feeder Drive
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 2tb Archive Drive
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 1tb Archive Drive
Windows 8 Pro & Media Center O.S. : Upgraded to WHS 2011 O.S.
I hope to upgrade the two archive hard drives to 2 3tb WD Reds soon.
This has run rock solid so far.
Note: A few upgrades this is running great also with one exception. Yet to get usb 3.0 controller working seems to be a driver issue
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