PC advice: home server-August 2011

The Home server. Subject of heated debates on hardware.info. Opinions vary widely on topics such as the need to keep the Cabinet compact, the advantage of hot-swap bays, what a desirable energy consumption is, how much processing power is required, what kind of storage is needed, and much more. We can safely say that "the ideal home server" does not exist, the differences among our visitors use goals clearly too much.

However, this does not mean that we have no PC advice for the home server. In short, there are two options: hand-and ready to buy or build it yourself. Although there has been some ready-made home servers are for sale and this certainly have their advantages (compactness, price/performance ratio), builds the educated and hardware.info visitor this of course prefer itself. Our advice therefore tries to find the right balance between energy consumption, the affordability and expandability for a configuration that you can (make) build.

Central State energy consumption. A NAS with two disks consumes at most 35W; also an Atom-based PC can easily continue under the 50W. However, both these solutions lack the high flexibility in terms of enlargement and of our system, we have the lat therefore slightly lower. The recommended configuration consumes, according to our measurements, between the ages of 55 and 65W. It may be less, but then you lose heavily in terms of processing power and expandability. A compromise so, as always in the PC opinions (except the Ultimate system).

The configuration we recommend costs without operating system approximately 400 euros, barely more expensive than a ready solution. The advantages are evident: m r SATA ports, m r space for extensions, m r possibilities to processor or memory, appreciate or even to install additional storage controllers-and the choice of the operating system to the buyer.

This opinion is also excellent for making backups, streaming media, and also as a simple server for example, FTP or a photo album offers enough power.

Note: the PC opinions are compiled on the basis of tests of components by hardware.info. If there is between two opinions is no reason for change of a component, because there is no better product on the market has come, it will advice are identical to that of the preceding month.

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