Hello everyone, my name is Rocco, I live in Italy
I would like to build or buy a new server that will be used to share and store files among home's PCs, it will be used to download files from the net too (torrent). Now I would like to get some suggestions from you, what OS should I choose ? I have to say that my budget is "as low as possible", however, keeping a good components' quality.
I am not a very experienced users so I'd like to get an easy-to-configure OS. I've already tryed FreeNAS 8 few months ago and it seemed pretty fine but I haven't been able to set up properly the Transimission plug-in
I know that ZFS is a good choice too and it would avoid the cost of a hardware raid controller, however, I tryed FreeNAS on an old, unexciting machine (P4, DDR, 32bit), so I haven't exploited it.
I could also only install Windows Server 2012 but I'd need a hw RAID controller (pretty expensive)...
Appreciate your help
P.S. I think that 3-4 2TB disk would be good enough for my needs. After having chosen the right SW, I can pass to the hw part
I would like to build or buy a new server that will be used to share and store files among home's PCs, it will be used to download files from the net too (torrent). Now I would like to get some suggestions from you, what OS should I choose ? I have to say that my budget is "as low as possible", however, keeping a good components' quality.
I am not a very experienced users so I'd like to get an easy-to-configure OS. I've already tryed FreeNAS 8 few months ago and it seemed pretty fine but I haven't been able to set up properly the Transimission plug-in
I know that ZFS is a good choice too and it would avoid the cost of a hardware raid controller, however, I tryed FreeNAS on an old, unexciting machine (P4, DDR, 32bit), so I haven't exploited it.
I could also only install Windows Server 2012 but I'd need a hw RAID controller (pretty expensive)...
Appreciate your help
P.S. I think that 3-4 2TB disk would be good enough for my needs. After having chosen the right SW, I can pass to the hw part