Comments on: What Would Be An Ideal Home Fileserver Setup? http://www.firdouss.com/2009/09/what-would-be-an-ideal-home-fileserver-setup/ Random Sharing under the Sun Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:12:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Fird http://www.firdouss.com/2009/09/what-would-be-an-ideal-home-fileserver-setup/#comment-1757 Fird Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:12:31 +0000 http://www.firdouss.com/?p=1700#comment-1757 Yeah true, I was thinking of attaching the disks to a PCI card for dedicated SATA chip. Yeah true, I was thinking of attaching the disks to a PCI card for dedicated SATA chip.

]]> By: Mareg http://www.firdouss.com/2009/09/what-would-be-an-ideal-home-fileserver-setup/#comment-1756 Mareg Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:37:39 +0000 http://www.firdouss.com/?p=1700#comment-1756 Hmm...I had been thinking did Atom integrated motherboard able to support up to 6 SATA ports? As far as I remembered, at most only come with 4 SATA ports with microATX form factor =X Hmm…I had been thinking did Atom integrated motherboard able to support up to 6 SATA ports? As far as I remembered, at most only come with 4 SATA ports with microATX form factor =X

]]> By: Fird http://www.firdouss.com/2009/09/what-would-be-an-ideal-home-fileserver-setup/#comment-1749 Fird Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:08:49 +0000 http://www.firdouss.com/?p=1700#comment-1749 I think 8GB is a bit overkill for a home file server that only have at most 3 users. I've managed enterprise grade fileserver that have 8GB of ram and serving hundreds of users without anyajor slowdown. Yeah the toughest one now is the OS. If I want to harness that full 4GB of memory I'll have to resort to 64 bits. Which is a hassle. I think 8GB is a bit overkill for a home file server that only have at most 3 users. I’ve managed enterprise grade fileserver that have 8GB of ram and serving hundreds of users without anyajor slowdown.

Yeah the toughest one now is the OS. If I want to harness that full 4GB of memory I’ll have to resort to 64 bits. Which is a hassle.

]]> By: Aleph http://www.firdouss.com/2009/09/what-would-be-an-ideal-home-fileserver-setup/#comment-1748 Aleph Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:51:28 +0000 http://www.firdouss.com/?p=1700#comment-1748 (1) The power saved by using Atom would be colossal (but knowing Intel, the chipset probably end up using more wattage than the cpu ) but if performance that you need, pop a low powered coreduo (45w or less) onto a mITX mobo. (2) Last I checked, Intel's Atom chipset doesn't support more than 2gb. Nvidia Ion Atom-based chipset support up to 4gb. Nvidia 7 series-based ( 775 / AM2) mITX mobo support up to 8gb. (3) No clue on which is better. Any lean, fast OS with web-based GUI? (4) Microtower that can fit six 3.5'' hard drives that's not too big? I'd like to see that. My main rig is housed inside a SFF mATX casing and it still look gargantuan to me. My next upgrade would be an mITX casing (SG05/06) once there are enough mITX mobo in the market with pciex16 slot. Why don't you go for four 2TB drives? I think the extra cost is justified considering you get to have smaller case. (1) The power saved by using Atom would be colossal (but knowing Intel, the chipset probably end up using more wattage than the cpu ) but if performance that you need, pop a low powered coreduo (45w or less) onto a mITX mobo.

(2) Last I checked, Intel’s Atom chipset doesn’t support more than 2gb. Nvidia Ion Atom-based chipset support up to 4gb. Nvidia 7 series-based ( 775 / AM2) mITX mobo support up to 8gb.

(3) No clue on which is better. Any lean, fast OS with web-based GUI?

(4) Microtower that can fit six 3.5” hard drives that’s not too big? I’d like to see that.

My main rig is housed inside a SFF mATX casing and it still look gargantuan to me. My next upgrade would be an mITX casing (SG05/06) once there are enough mITX mobo in the market with pciex16 slot.

Why don’t you go for four 2TB drives? I think the extra cost is justified considering you get to have smaller case.

]]> By: Ahmad Nazir http://www.firdouss.com/2009/09/what-would-be-an-ideal-home-fileserver-setup/#comment-1746 Ahmad Nazir Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:22:25 +0000 http://www.firdouss.com/?p=1700#comment-1746 Well, i'm not really into this server thing, it seems complicated. But i think 4GB of RAM isn't enough to cater 3TB of data. What if there's a power outage so bad that u need to immediately backup all the files, and i think 8GB of RAM above is best. I think your targetted budget is possible, err...not sure, not really into this stuff. I think you should survey this very carefully; thru Web, or friends & others who know best. Correct me if i'm wrong ;) Well, i’m not really into this server thing, it seems complicated. But i think 4GB of RAM isn’t enough to cater 3TB of data. What if there’s a power outage so bad that u need to immediately backup all the files, and i think 8GB of RAM above is best.

I think your targetted budget is possible, err…not sure, not really into this stuff.

I think you should survey this very carefully; thru Web, or friends & others who know best.

Correct me if i’m wrong ;)

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