The home server here is now a netbook with external USB hard drives. Why we did that was simple. The old PC server solution was pulling 200+ Watts and accounted for a big chunk of the electrical use as it ran 24x7.
Now you might think a netbook would not be able to serve up files quickly but given the 100BT LAN (100 megabits per second) this appears to not tax the netbook.
On the Watt meter the netbook when the screen is off and not much going on slips to under 9 Watts. When transferring a file, 11 Watts and the screen on is 15 Watts.
And this with no big speed loss over the ethernet.
Have you tried this?
Bob
Hi i have a file server running at home at the moment maybe 10 users at the max. but i have decided to upgrade storage space. i had a single 1TB disk for media and OS running on enougher disk windows server 2008 R2 at the moment.
i have just bought 2 more 1TB disks now equaling 3x 1TB and was going to set them up in RAID 5 (software) as i dont have the funds to buy a expensive RAID controller.
am puzzled on where to go from here for best performance.
iv heard the windows software RAID is not the best.
i was thinkg about using ubuntu server as i have some experince in using it.
My system specs.
Core 2 Duo
4gb ddr2 800mhz
Basic desktop motherboard with 4x Sata ports.
My plan was to run OS on 2x 40gb sata drives in RAID 1(software)
and storage on 3x 1TB in RAID 5(software)
is this a recomended setup or is there an alternitive.
Hope some one can help.
Thanks lee

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