Repurposing an old PC as a home server vs Buying / Building

Danger781

Hey guys,

I set up Plex on my home PC yesterday and this got me thinking how useful it would be to have an in-home server to act as a Plex Server / Torrent Seeding / Web server etc. You get the picture.

My next question is whether to bother re-purposing my old PC to run as an Ubuntu Server, or not to bother. It's old. Would have been bought in 00 / 01 but still runs decently. Just wondering if it would be worth the effort or should I just buy a micro server or build a new server myself.

Any input appreciated.

ED E

I transitioned from an old E6700/4GB machine to a new Avaton Octa-core build recently, so similar situation. The reason I did it was storage, old machine was doing ok and could have taken a quad but couldnt support a rake of drives. The new build has 8 bays and 12 Sata ports, so I can keep on growing. If you plan on using it for backups or seed a lot of content I'd look to have enough space for drives a plenty, its too soon to be putting 8TB disks in arrays.

Danger781

ED E wrote: »

I transitioned from an old E6700/4GB machine to a new Avaton Octa-core build recently, so similar situation. The reason I did it was storage, old machine was doing ok and could have taken a quad but couldnt support a rake of drives. The new build has 8 bays and 12 Sata ports, so I can keep on growing. If you plan on using it for backups or seed a lot of content I'd look to have enough space for drives a plenty, its too soon to be putting 8TB disks in arrays.

Yeah Storage is definitely the big let down.. I can imagine it wouldn't fit too many drives. Can't remember the exact specs but as far as I remember it's running about 1GB of DDR RAM. 1Ghz dual core. So not much performance out of it either.

ED E

Thats probably too weak unless its role is going to be very light.

Danger781

Yeah it's probably not worth it so. Just seems a shame to have it wasting away in a cupboard.