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| 08-16-12 01:43pm - 4529 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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BadMrFrosty (0)
Active User Posts: 124 Registered: Mar 05, '10 Location: Prague (Czech Republic) |
I generally love this site and it does a hell of a lot things very well. One thing that I feel would enormously benefit from some optimisation is the way staff feedback on our comments/reviews/reply's is fed back to us. Unless we go through the process of clicking on the little number next to our name, then on the approved feedback link we would never know if something we posted was controversial or pushing the boundaries of the rules or in some way worthy of comment. Myself being borderline OCD, I always check the reaction to my posts but I'm wondering how many of us miss this feedback? When we get a reply from another user we get the big flashing thing-er-me-gig at the top of the screen, maybe staff feedback should have something similar? The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa | |
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| 08-08-11 11:48pm - 4902 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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BadMrFrosty (0)
Active User Posts: 124 Registered: Mar 05, '10 Location: Prague (Czech Republic) |
This is supposed to be a total newbie friendly guide to putting together a home server for storing your "stuff". If anything needs more explanation, let me know and I will try to clarify. I will split the guide into 2 parts, the first covering the hardware needed and the second will go over the software, configuration and additional tips. Choosing the Hardware If you have any old PCs knocking about you can probably salvage a lot of this stuff from them. I tend not to recycle the CPU, motherboard or RAM as modern CPUs need a lot less power to do their job. As most of the time the CPU will be doing very little, it can switch itself to a lower power / slower mode which is more than good enough for a simple file server. As well as being Eco friendly, a added bonus is less power used by the CPU = less heat generated. Less heat means slower fans, slower fans mean less noise. 1. Motherboard You will need one to match whichever type of CPU you choose. My servers use AMD based CPUs so the motherboard must be able to take one of those chips. The blurb on the box will make it clear what CPU you can use. You want a motherboard that has on board graphics, as many SATA ports as possible, usually this will be 6 and Gigabit Ethernet. Other than that get the cheapest possible. 2. CPU The cheapest possible will be fine. Go for the retail boxed version as it will include the fan and thermal paste pre-applied. 3. Memory (RAM) 1GB, cheapest possible to match what your motherboard takes. This will be either DDR2 or DDR3. Speed of the memory is not important. 4. Power supply If you plan to leave the server switched on 24hrs a day (I dont, more on that in part 2) then go for a decent power supply like a Corsair, if not a el cheapo 400 Watt will be fine. 5. Case Again cheapest that you can find will be fine. You should just make sure there is enough space to fit 6 hard drives. You can buy brackets very cheaply which allow the spaces that DVD drives fit into to be used for 3.5 inch hard drives instead so nearly all tower cases will fit enough drives. 6. Hard drives You don't have to buy all the hard drives at once. Just get at least one which will be used to store the operating system. Also buy a SATA cable, some motherboards come with them but they are very cheap and you dont want to put off your build because of missing a essential cable. If you are buying many drives at the same time you want to make sure the PSU is going to have enough plugs to power them all. If not you will need to get some molex to sata converter cables. These are very cheap and just allow you to power modern SATA drives using legacy molex plugs. 7. Temporary stuff You will also need access to a DVD drive, a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Once you have the system up and running you wont need them again unless something goes badly wrong. Putting it together Once you have all the bits its a case of putting them all together. If you played with mechano or some such thing as a kid you will have no trouble at all putting together a PC. The stuff you buy will come with instructions but may be written in Engrish so follow the pictures! I will give you a basic overview here with advice on common mistakes but you can find much better guides to putting together a PC from the bits via Google. Also most computer shops offer to build a PC from the bits you choose very cheaply. My local place charge about $15 to do that. 1. Attach the CPU with the fan to the motherboard. This will be clamped very tightly. If you bought the CPU and fan separately make sure you also bought and applied the thermal paste to the CPU. The power cable from the fan will usually also plug into the motherboard. 2. Slot in the memory. This will fit only one way so make sure its the right way round before applying too much force. 3. Screw the PSU into the case. 4. Install the motherboard. Make sure you put the little risers in the correct place to match with the screw holes on the motherboard. 5. Attach the power cables from the PSU to the motherboard. 6. Attach the button and LED wires from the case to the motherboard. This is fiddly, just make sure you get the power button attached, the others don't matter too much as servers are usually stored out of sight. 7. Install the hard disk(s). Plug one end of the SATA cable into the motherboard, the other into the drive. They will fit only one way so no danger of plugging them in wrongly. Plug in the power cable. 8. Install the DVD drive in the same way as the hard drive. As the DVD drive is there just for installing the OS, you don't need to close the case as you will remove the DVD drive soon anyway. 9. Attach the external cables, power, mouse, keyboard, monitor. Now you are ready to install the OS. Your choice of OS is really up to you. I use Windows 7 which is very easy to setup and configure. More on that in part 2. The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa | |
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| 11-02-10 10:37am - 5182 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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BadMrFrosty (0)
Active User Posts: 124 Registered: Mar 05, '10 Location: Prague (Czech Republic) |
Sometimes I hate living in Prague but other times I love it. This is definatly one of the later  If anyone is here on the 11th of this month, perhaps you would be interested in going to a porn party. I'm looking forward to meeting Christopher Clark as his Euro Angels series was one of the reasons I had to come to Prague in the first place Hope to see some of you there... The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?Frank Zappa | |
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