Okay I have an old "server" that is biting the dust. Its only an 8gig ram Optiplex 745 dektop I am using as a server that had 2 mirrored 1.5 TB drives in it.
I have reciently got into home theater stuff and now have 3 WD TV Lives and I am LOVING it so much I just ripped all of my DVD's and Blu-Rays to put on my server shares so I am now basically serving all 3 of them with this server and am almost 100% hard media free in my house.
The 2 problems I have is 1) drive space this current optiplex 745 will not run a 3tb drive in it as the bios is too old and the board does not support it. On top of this my current 1.5s are at max limit and I have to delete shows i have not watched to put other shows on. 2) there is another hardware issue causing random reboots 3) would like to incorporate a TV tuner card of some kind into this server which I do not have in my current system
OS I will be running Windows 2008 of some flavor as I run a test domain in my house on my PCs.
What I am wondering is if anyone had some knowledge of some non super expensive rigs that would have a HIGH media capactiy, redundancy to prevent data loss, quiet enough to be in a home situation and NOT be like an airplane taking off, and perhaps even had network redundancy built in as I had an issue with the Optiplex 745 that made me have to add in another ethernet card after the fact.
I don't want to run a NAS and a server I just want an all in one solution.
Thanks for looking and feel free to provide solutions. I am open to any suggestions except a build yourself rig as those have always been on the nosiy side no matter what kind of "quiet run" parts I have used in the past.
So in all to recap - quiet as possible, redundant as possible both disks and network, able to run a TV tuner card in the future, and will run the latest Windows OSes for domain testing purposes.
Thanks for any suggestions you all may have.
I have reciently got into home theater stuff and now have 3 WD TV Lives and I am LOVING it so much I just ripped all of my DVD's and Blu-Rays to put on my server shares so I am now basically serving all 3 of them with this server and am almost 100% hard media free in my house.
The 2 problems I have is 1) drive space this current optiplex 745 will not run a 3tb drive in it as the bios is too old and the board does not support it. On top of this my current 1.5s are at max limit and I have to delete shows i have not watched to put other shows on. 2) there is another hardware issue causing random reboots 3) would like to incorporate a TV tuner card of some kind into this server which I do not have in my current system
OS I will be running Windows 2008 of some flavor as I run a test domain in my house on my PCs.
What I am wondering is if anyone had some knowledge of some non super expensive rigs that would have a HIGH media capactiy, redundancy to prevent data loss, quiet enough to be in a home situation and NOT be like an airplane taking off, and perhaps even had network redundancy built in as I had an issue with the Optiplex 745 that made me have to add in another ethernet card after the fact.
I don't want to run a NAS and a server I just want an all in one solution.
Thanks for looking and feel free to provide solutions. I am open to any suggestions except a build yourself rig as those have always been on the nosiy side no matter what kind of "quiet run" parts I have used in the past.
So in all to recap - quiet as possible, redundant as possible both disks and network, able to run a TV tuner card in the future, and will run the latest Windows OSes for domain testing purposes.
Thanks for any suggestions you all may have.