willay
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Seems to be a few of us with servers-at-home, can everyone show off what they are running? I'll start.
HP N54L Microserver
16GB ram (on the bios it came with)
4 x 3TB WD Reds
FreeNAS 9
Some HP branded Intel dual gigabit NIC
USB Key plugged into the M/B for FreeNAS to run on
Found some thread on overclockers about making it more quiet, so purchased these:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-026-NB
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-017-NB
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-030-AK
Changed the fan in the PSU and back of the Microserver and now you can hardly hear her running 
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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2x HP Microserver N40L
Server 1:
8GB RAM + 4x 3TB drives + 1x 80GB Laptop drive for OS.
Running Nas4Free, as a simple nas, which also handles my torrents.
Server 2:
8GB RAM + 2x 2TB WD Green drives
1x 80GB laptop hard drive for OS
Currently running ESXi5.5, with a couple of Server 2012R2 servers to play about with, and also act as a backup for some of my most important files on the NAS. Got stuff like Symantec Backup Exec running on it, as well as other stuff. I dont really do a great deal with it at the moment.
Mrs hates it that I've setup GPO's to restrict her account on the media centre  
[Edited on 06-10-2014 by Aaron]
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willay
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Restrict her access to the media centre, see you went wrong there by letting her know there was other media she didn't have access to 
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andy_mk3
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Here's mine, sits under the stairs out the way.
Still Running 4GB ram as that's ample for my usage.
Got 1x 3TB WD Red and 2x 2TB Samsung F4's so far.
Use it as a Plex server running Server 2012 R2. Got VPN and bits like that set up on it. Use it for backups too.
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Doug
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Currently got an N40L with 8GB RAM running Windows Home Server 2011.
Tempted to overhaul it a bit as it's been running in it's current guise for a year or more now.
I really like how it functions at the moment. I have Newsgroups all set up and functioning automatically.
I like the idea of the Synology DSM software. So I might consider bringing that up in a hyper visor.
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luciaadr
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Registered: 11th Aug 04
Location: Bexleyheath, Greater London
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Mine is in the loft, serving the house with media, and backing up all more essential computer files.
It runs unraid, which is a lightweight linux, designed for media servers. No matter how many disks you have, only 1 is used for parity, so the more disks you have the more efficient the raid is. Plus it only spins up the required hard drive when you access a particular file.
Its got 7 HDDs in there, 4 in the main bay, 2 at the top, and one 2.5" between the top section and main bays. Writing to the main array of 6 HDDs is quite slow so the 2.5" is a faster "cache" drive outside of the array that modified files are written to outside of the raid, then synced overnight. Currently running 6x2TB giving 10TB useable space
All connected to this, and then to the rest of the house...
Plans are either to upgrade the HDDs when I run out of space soon, or just get another
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John
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That setup just sounds like it'll catastrophically fail.
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luciaadr
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Which part?
Data isn't striped, so even if it did go tits up, the drives are still readable on any computer which is another reason I chose it.
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pow
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Sounds scary to me as well!
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VrsTurbo
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pft you all need some proper servers in your life!
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willay
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like luciaadr's setup, tis ghetto
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