file server

Let's start by saying that if I'm in the wrong forum please let me know so I can ask this question in the right place. This is the first time building a home server and I would like it to be a file server, plex, and home assistant machine. Is there an OS that would best be suited for this...

Hey Wonderful People! I'm currently looking to see if someone here might be able to assist or point me in the right direction. Apologies in advance for any stupid questions or mistakes on my end etc. I'm an indie game designer and I'm looking at solutions for a few issues. Network Attached...

We're looking to build a home server to be used for, steam web cache, file server (local and internet) and ripping and hosting Blu-ray's. The hardware we're thinking about at the moment is: CPU: athlon 3000g Ram: 2*4gb ddr4 Storage: 10*600gb 15k sas + 120gb ssd Motherboard: Asus b450m micro ATX...

Hi all, Found this deal on eBay, was hoping someone can give some advice on it, mainly, is hardware like this still worth it etc. Dell Poweredge R710 2x Intel Xeon X5690 6C 12T 3.47GHz 16GB DDR3 RAM 6x 3.5" SATA/SAS bays Included with 5x300GB 10k SAS drives 2x870W Gold rated PSU Perc6/I RAID...

Hello folks, I want to build a ZFS-Server-NAS with Raid-Z2 and want to stream movies (1:1 Copies of Blu Rays) to Nvidia Shield using Plex / Kodi. Do I need some Cache for L2ARc, SIL and/or SLOG ? I have about 32Gigs of ECC RAM for ZFS. And considering the news that MakeMKV now supports HEVC...

as the subj. says, can it be done and how? I have been planning to rebuild my home server with Proxmox VE 4.4 but as I have a single server, hardware wise, I need it to be a VM server AND a file server. reading up on ZFS lead me to conclusion that while it is a nice robust FS it has it's...