Low Power Home Server Suggestion

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YashP

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List of Parts:

CPU: Intel Pentium G3240
Mobo: Gigabyte H81M-S1 LGA1150
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz
SSD: Transcend 64GB 6GBPS SSD
HDD: WD Green 4TB 5400RPM
Cabinet: Intex Small Cabinet+Intex Local PSU(Will Upgrade PSU Later If Needed)
Switch: D-LINK 5 Port Gigabit Switch

Software Usage:

OS: Windows Server 2012 R2

Roles of My Server:

NAS: Will Use Window's File Sharing For It
Torrenting: Utorrent With WEBGUI
Remote Installation: Will Use WDS For Network Installations
Gaming: Will Use Steam/Origin/Uplay To Download My Games
Media: Plex Server
Remote: Teamviwer or MS's Remote Desktop With Internet Access

This System Will Run 24x7 :)

I'm Not Planning To Do RAID Now or In Future.

Is This Build Okay? Suggest Me If This Build Is Not Okay :)
 
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Solandri

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Based on your processor choice, it sounds like you are trying to keep cost down? For systems which are left on 24/7, you really want to concentrate on reducing power consumption. Through a remarkable coincidence, if you pay the U.S. average of 11.5 cents/kWh, the number of Watts a system burns almost exactly matches the number of dollars worth of electricity it'll consume in a year. ($0.115/kWh * 8760 h/yr = $1.0074 per Watt-year) So if a system burns an average of 40 Watts, it'll cost you about $40 to keep it powered on 24/7 for a year.

The G3240 is a 54 Watt TDP processor. I'd really recommend at most a 35 Watt TDP processor for this type of application. A 10 Watt difference in idle power draw would translate into $10 saved each year in electricity. More if you live somewhere with higher electricity prices like California or Hawaii. After a few years the cheaper processor will actually be costing you more money.

Better yet, since it sounds like you aren't going to do anything fancy with this, just buy a cheap laptop. Those typically idle around 5 Watts vs. about 30 Watts for a thrifty desktop. So it'll be saving you $25/yr in electricity. Replace its HDD with a SSD, get an external USB 3.0 4TB HDD. Since you won't be using the screen, it won't matter if the screen is low-res and sucks. Just make sure it has gigabit ethernet, an easy to upgrade drive, USB 3.0, and a decent CPU and enough RAM and you are good to go.
 
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