Mysterae
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I have some old computer bits that I'd like to put to some use and my first thought is to build a mixture of a server and media PC if that's at all possible. My existing QNAP NAS is long in the tooth, slow and limited in storage space.
The parts are Gigabyte P67A-UD7-B3, Intel i7 2600K, 8GB RAM, an old Tagan 580W PSU, OCZ Revo 2 120GB PCIE SSD and a few 1TB hard drives. The case I'm intending to use is an old nondescript thing suitable for up to 4 hard drives.
I'd like the pc to handle the light backup duties of the house over the network, store and play back music, connect to the telly to watch movies, Amazon, iPlayer etc, be a duplicate storage for IPcam feeds. The NAS could be re-purposed to some of those duties if needed.
The selection of what operating system has me stumped. I have Windows 7 that I could put on it but not sure of the server capabilities, would Ubuntu be better suited? Would a RAID card be necessary or overkill?
All help appreciated
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. Anyone any ideas or suggestions? I'm going to install Ubuntu to have a play and see if it'll do what I need. The idea is to install the OS on the PCIE SSD and have the mech hd's do the storage. I had thought about installing Win7 and MySql (if possible) or something for the server duties.
The parts are Gigabyte P67A-UD7-B3, Intel i7 2600K, 8GB RAM, an old Tagan 580W PSU, OCZ Revo 2 120GB PCIE SSD and a few 1TB hard drives. The case I'm intending to use is an old nondescript thing suitable for up to 4 hard drives.
I'd like the pc to handle the light backup duties of the house over the network, store and play back music, connect to the telly to watch movies, Amazon, iPlayer etc, be a duplicate storage for IPcam feeds. The NAS could be re-purposed to some of those duties if needed.
The selection of what operating system has me stumped. I have Windows 7 that I could put on it but not sure of the server capabilities, would Ubuntu be better suited? Would a RAID card be necessary or overkill?
All help appreciated

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