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Home server

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  • 05-11-2007 6:27pm
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    highlydebased
    Registered Users Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭


    Planning on building a server for at home- just for storing music. etc etc, Possibly getting domain server etc up and running

    I have Win2k server there so thats what will be going on it!


    What sort of CPU and RAM should I be looking at?

    I have currently picked out the AMD Athlon X2 4000......do I even need dual core?

    2gb RAM- too much?


    Also......how much hard disk space will Win2k detect?


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    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    Neon-Circles wrote: »
    Planning on building a server for at home- just for storing music. etc etc, Possibly getting domain server etc up and running

    I have Win2k server there so thats what will be going on it!


    What sort of CPU and RAM should I be looking at?

    I have currently picked out the AMD Athlon X2 4000......do I even need dual core?

    2gb RAM- too much?


    Also......how much hard disk space will Win2k detect?
    for a home server thats rather overkill. active directory runs fine on a P4 with 512Mb ram i have here and ive used it on a P3 it was just a bit slower with less ram etc

    for a storage server 512MB/pentium3 and whatever storage you need would suffice if you want to run active directory id be going for a pentium 4 at least but all this depends on how many client systems you have running along side


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    highlydebased
    Registered Users Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Would at most have 3 other machines accessing it at one time.....well thats all there is in the house :D


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    Shiny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    Neon-Circles wrote: »

    What sort of CPU and RAM should I be looking at?

    2gb RAM- too much?

    Also......how much hard disk space will Win2k detect?

    Agree with weeder, any basic cpu will do the job fine.
    1 gig of ram would be loads.

    win2k limits the hardrive size to ~130gigs but if you install the
    latest service pack (SP4 I think) it is then fixed.


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    #5
    HungryJoey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭HungryJoey


    For my fileserver with 2 x 500GB and 2 x 320GB HDD's, Laser printer, color printer, TV Records directly to the Fileserver, VNC viewer on windows XP Pro. I have it under the stairs and I VNC onto it if to run my downloads I run a P3 933Mhz, 512MB RAM dell machine. Can have anything up to 6-7 PC's running of it at any time. Runs perfectly. So as previously suggested, yes that would be overkill for you.

    Hj


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