It comes as no surprise to my friends and family that the time has come for me to set aside some of my storage devices and server builds of the past for something bigger and better in 2017. Over the...
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For me building a computer is pretty mindless work and after you have done it a few thousand times the steps almost become routine. For instance every time I sit down to do a review I have to assemble a...
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In 2013, we published an article on building your own NAS for an affordable storage solution. Well, there was such a positive reaction and such demand for an updated NAS build, I decided that it is high-time I revisit this...
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The installation went smoothly for us and I did not have any issues after downloading the bits from Microsoft and upgrading from build 9926. When I tried to upgrade from 10036, the install crashed twice, so keep that in mind...
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It has been a while since we posted anything about our Home Server. From parts one through three we spec’d, built and tested a Server that would have multimedia capability via a home network and, double as a business server.
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In parts one and two, we basically spec’d and built a basis for a Home Server. In reality, other than plans to use it as a Server, it is currently just a desktop PC with RAID SSD’s and a lot of RAM. We have had the server up and running now for some weeks and it has performed flawlessly.
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Hello all and welcome to this multi-part journey through my File/Home Server build. This is not intended as a ”How to ” or any sort of pre written guide so take the information in this article with a pinch of...
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Since Part 1 was completed, I have also decided on a few other components, namely the motherboard, CPU, memory and cooler. As it stands I can start to assemble the core build and start a troubleshooting phase without storing files or streaming media, getting in the way of formatting and OS installing etc.
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