Should i build a home server from scraps?

trollol1365 · Sep 15, 2017

my school has a bunch of pc's that they arent using and will through away (mostly because its outdated) and i was thinking if i should build a server for my family to save files

I want to take ~5 but I dont know how many there are

should have 500gb hdd's and i3's the rest im not sure

will post updates

p.s. I dont know which category I should use

why_wolf · Sep 15, 2017

For a simple file server (assuming everyone in your family isn't trying to hit it up all the time at the same time) an i3 should be sufficient to do the job.

boosted1g · Sep 15, 2017

i3 is more than sufficient for a file server.

You will want to do this registry hack for a file server running standard desktop os: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/18667011-c034-43bc-ab2e-0e87bf811e5e/windows-7-increase-the-limit-of-concurrent-tcp-connections-not-related-to-eula-file-sharing?forum=w7itpronetworking

Alabalcho · Sep 15, 2017

If you can - after you've sure a PC works, see whether it supports more memory, and take some modules from other PCs which will be thrown away. You can scavenge couple of hard drives as well.

trollol1365 · Sep 16, 2017

boosted1g :

should i install an OS? i think the pc's have windows 7(enterprise)

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