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<blockquote data-quote="4Fred" data-source="post: 992590" data-attributes="member: 16968">It somewhat depends on what OS you are planning on running, it also depends on what type of RAID you are planning on using.On many mainboards there is the option to enable raid and let the mainboard be responsible for raid functions, the OS in this case does not &quot;know&quot; that the drive is raid enabled - thus this does not affect performance of the running OS.If you use &quot;soft raid&quot; this is up to the OS and that may impact performance.There are specifications for running different OS, here for <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system-requirements-2.aspx" target="_blank">WHS</a>.As an alternative there is also <a href="http://www.freenas.org/for-home.html" target="_blank">FreeNAS </a>that may be right for you.&nbsp;Now all that being said... I'd still NOT get the minimum requirements for anything but a bit more than I need right now. Let's say you start with what you said, basicallt a fileshare and some files. Then you want backup of all your clients, then maybe you want some other software for sharing media, then you want access to that from the internet but need transcoding due to bandwith, and then you want... well I think you get the idea <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp;I'd say get atleast an Intel i3 and 4gb RAM, a small separate disk (preferably ssd) for whatever OS you want to run and separate disk(s) for storage. That way you have options on what software to run and some room to expand your solution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="4Fred, post: 992590, member: 16968"] It somewhat depends on what OS you are planning on running, it also depends on what type of RAID you are planning on using. On many mainboards there is the option to enable raid and let the mainboard be responsible for raid functions, the OS in this case does not "know" that the drive is raid enabled - thus this does not affect performance of the running OS. If you use "soft raid" this is up to the OS and that may impact performance. There are specifications for running different OS, here for [URL='http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system-requirements-2.aspx']WHS[/URL]. As an alternative there is also [URL='http://www.freenas.org/for-home.html']FreeNAS [/URL]that may be right for you. Now all that being said... I'd still NOT get the minimum requirements for anything but a bit more than I need right now. Let's say you start with what you said, basicallt a fileshare and some files. Then you want backup of all your clients, then maybe you want some other software for sharing media, then you want access to that from the internet but need transcoding due to bandwith, and then you want... well I think you get the idea ;) I'd say get atleast an Intel i3 and 4gb RAM, a small separate disk (preferably ssd) for whatever OS you want to run and separate disk(s) for storage. That way you have options on what software to run and some room to expand your solution. [/QUOTE]

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