Hello everyone.
I would like to have a central computer in my home network that I can leave on all the time that will be connected directly (via USB) to our external storage hard drives. I currently have them connected to my main PC but it gets shutdown at night which limits access for the other PC's.
I am not sure if what I am looking for is a home server or not. If it is what I need, what do I need hardware wise (specs) to get and what software to run it? I was reading up on servers but I do not know anything about raid setups and some techs mentioned using Linux too.
I have experience building PC's for gaming and business use, so I would prefer to build it myself. I also have enough spare PC parts that I can use to build a dual core system but nothing too fancy.
Any advice is appreciated.
I would like to have a central computer in my home network that I can leave on all the time that will be connected directly (via USB) to our external storage hard drives. I currently have them connected to my main PC but it gets shutdown at night which limits access for the other PC's.
I am not sure if what I am looking for is a home server or not. If it is what I need, what do I need hardware wise (specs) to get and what software to run it? I was reading up on servers but I do not know anything about raid setups and some techs mentioned using Linux too.
I have experience building PC's for gaming and business use, so I would prefer to build it myself. I also have enough spare PC parts that I can use to build a dual core system but nothing too fancy.
Any advice is appreciated.
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