Hi All,
I have read quite a few of the various guides and what people have done to build a media server. I looked at Millhouse's guide etc, Good Job.
What I require though is a little help as i realise this thing is going to be on a lot of the time during the day but asleep at night.
Now I was going to buy some bits n pieces to build this thing from scratch BUT I have just been offered an older dell precision 670 workstation for a little over £150 UK.
Would this be aby good for server use?
I am going to put this into a new tower case or 4u rack mount case. I will have 2 x 8port SATA controller cards controlling around 20 HDD's with two others in raid1 for the OS.
I am just a little concerned about the power consumption of the old P4 Xenon cpu's?? do they use a lot of power??
Anyone have any experience of doing this by recycling a dell
Regards
Kev
PS I realise there are one or two wires changed on the dell power supply's so I may change that so that a normal PSU can be used
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Ok i have had a lot of thinking and what i required from this server and the project has developed somewhat!!!
I just hope the wife doesnt read all this as she would kill me lol.
Anyway here is the spec that I have built up so far.
Case: Supermicro SC846TQ-R900B
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 2.66G
CPU cooler: Artic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro v2
Motherboard: GIGABYTE EX58-UD3R. This has enough PCI and PCIe slots for the cards i have to go in.
Ram: 4GB TW3X4G1333C9A XMS3 CLASSIC
HDD: 8 x 1TB samsung spinpoints and 4 x 1.5TB samsung eco green's
OS HDD: 128GB SAMSUNG 2.5 SATA2 Flash drive
Gfx: 1G GAINWARD 9600GT. I did buy a passive card but it covered one of the Pcie slots and had to send that back.
It has been an interesting and taxing build so far as the case is huge and weighs a ton.
I will post some picks later on as i will take a few.
The reason for the HDD that are in there is that the 8 x 1Tb samsung spinpoints are from my current HTPC and my workstation. Otherwise they would all have been eco green ones.
I am still thinking about power consumtion and I am looking to initially send the server to sleep and wake it up when required. Will have to wait until the server is fully built before that happens.
The main reason for the expensive case is that i looked into buying a full tower and back planes. In some country's this is a cheaper option but not here in the UK. By the time i had finished messing with all the parts required it wasnt far of the cost of the supermicro case anyway.
Anwyay back to work for now will post some build pics later...................
Thanks to all for your input
Kev
I have read quite a few of the various guides and what people have done to build a media server. I looked at Millhouse's guide etc, Good Job.
What I require though is a little help as i realise this thing is going to be on a lot of the time during the day but asleep at night.
Now I was going to buy some bits n pieces to build this thing from scratch BUT I have just been offered an older dell precision 670 workstation for a little over £150 UK.
Would this be aby good for server use?
I am going to put this into a new tower case or 4u rack mount case. I will have 2 x 8port SATA controller cards controlling around 20 HDD's with two others in raid1 for the OS.
I am just a little concerned about the power consumption of the old P4 Xenon cpu's?? do they use a lot of power??
Anyone have any experience of doing this by recycling a dell
Regards
Kev
PS I realise there are one or two wires changed on the dell power supply's so I may change that so that a normal PSU can be used
**************************************************************************************************************
Ok i have had a lot of thinking and what i required from this server and the project has developed somewhat!!!
I just hope the wife doesnt read all this as she would kill me lol.
Anyway here is the spec that I have built up so far.
Case: Supermicro SC846TQ-R900B
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 2.66G
CPU cooler: Artic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro v2
Motherboard: GIGABYTE EX58-UD3R. This has enough PCI and PCIe slots for the cards i have to go in.
Ram: 4GB TW3X4G1333C9A XMS3 CLASSIC
HDD: 8 x 1TB samsung spinpoints and 4 x 1.5TB samsung eco green's
OS HDD: 128GB SAMSUNG 2.5 SATA2 Flash drive
Gfx: 1G GAINWARD 9600GT. I did buy a passive card but it covered one of the Pcie slots and had to send that back.
It has been an interesting and taxing build so far as the case is huge and weighs a ton.
I will post some picks later on as i will take a few.
The reason for the HDD that are in there is that the 8 x 1Tb samsung spinpoints are from my current HTPC and my workstation. Otherwise they would all have been eco green ones.
I am still thinking about power consumtion and I am looking to initially send the server to sleep and wake it up when required. Will have to wait until the server is fully built before that happens.
The main reason for the expensive case is that i looked into buying a full tower and back planes. In some country's this is a cheaper option but not here in the UK. By the time i had finished messing with all the parts required it wasnt far of the cost of the supermicro case anyway.
Anwyay back to work for now will post some build pics later...................
Thanks to all for your input
Kev