Where Is The Sixth Arrow? I Spy

Project Home Server - Part I: Preparation

The holiday season, it shows once again: a well-organized file archive and backup should not fail in any networked home.

Whether it's a safe storage of the vacation photos, the digital archive of invoices or swelling iTunes archive, the need for storage space in a digital home is enormous. Here, however, to place at least willing to look more and more noisy hard drives in the living room or study. And the handling could be as simple external hard drives (aside from the fact that mobile media like to follow gravity and so data loss occurs)

The idea is thus the way to Home Server. And as a computer will be allowed to naturally aufschwatzen no ready solution, the urge to tinker at the holidays, as they did in childhood, continues unabated.

preparation
to be the first place must now be considered of course, what does my server what I want to do with it?

• process and store videos and, if necessary. (Storage + + + + + performance)
  The camcorder records in long and 1080p on the new iPhone 4 at 720p and new demands on storage capacity. Among the videos will be on the server and converted so that the player can also view the videos in the living room.
• Image Archive (Storage + + +)
  Digital SLR needed per shot (RAW + JPEG) 15 MB, there are fast times 20 GB snapped in the summer.
• backup memory (RAM + + +)
  Windows or other software which will become a complete system image of the other computers can take hold and in addition a history of about 3 months on a weekly basis.
• virtual playground (storage + + + + + memory, processing power + +) for experimental
  should have such a server the ability to start virtual machines and operating in parallel to experiment with other versions of Windows and Linux. The families homepage can can in such a virtual machine running

in all we say that the server requires a very high storage capacity, a lot of memory for the next preliminary processes must have, and an average CPU has to provide power. In Part II we'll talk more about it.

addition to the functional demands of course always the issue of further conditions.

• power consumption
  course, the server should not always run at full capacity and only operate as required with all components.
• price range
  We are talking here of a product for end users and as a finished Windows Home Server equipment costs with a lean 800-1000EUR and the server should this project be located there. Of course, at a far greater range of services.

This is now the rough framework put. In Part II deals with the searching and the results. The specific components are presented and discussed their data.

From January 2011 Part III appears (manual assembly), Part IV (commissioning) and Part V will summarize how the server is reflected in practice.