# building a badass file server.

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [November 20, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/building-a-badass-file-server/20436 "2006-11-20T12:17:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/building-a-badass-file-server/20436/1 "2006-11-20T12:17:50Z")

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My little winter project is going to be to build a nice fileserver for my home to serve music, dvd isos, etc, to 4 client pc’s.

I have a real nice new antec full tower case with their big wattage psu.

I picked up a socket 754 athlon64 processor and stock heatsink for a song.

I have 4 drives, 2 are 250mg maxtor ide drives, 2 are 250gig maxtor sata drives.

I want to run each pair in a RAID1 array.

The only thing i have to buy is a new motherboard.

I’m steering towards one with onboard video.

Should I get one with onboard RAID? Do these things actually work properly?

Or should I just get two promise cards, one SATA one IDE RAID, and do it that way?

Now for the OS. I don’t have any legit copies of xp sitting here. I do have a 2000 Pro copy that i’m not using.

Should I use 2k pro or something linux oriented like [Freenas.org](http://Freenas.org)?

The freenas was nice because it was linux, and it had a linksys router type configuration to it.

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**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/building-a-badass-file-server/20436/2 "2006-11-20T14:17:29Z")

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on board raid and video are stupid… you can get what you need for cheap

some boards will have the onboard, but you can get a nice raid card for cheap

use xp who cares if its legit

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**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/building-a-badass-file-server/20436/3 "2006-11-20T14:50:52Z")

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I run a similar fileserver & network.

promise card(s)  
onboard video (its just a file server)  
xp pro