How to Build a Home Server Part 1: Picking the right Components

Want to build your own home server to backup your data or have your own cloud server? This video series is dedicated to building your own cheap home server. In this first part, I discuss why I want to build my own server, why I don't use a NAS and which components I have picked for the home server.

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Timeline:
00:00 Why build a home server?
02:29 Message from our sponsor
03:19 Choosing the CPU
04:15 Choosing RAM
04:48 Do you need ECC RAM for a home server?
06:15 Choosing hard drives
07:58 Choosing the motherboard
08:40 Choosing the case
09:25 Choosing a cooler
09:39 Choosing a PSU
10:20 Cost of entire build

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[duongminhhoang]

This series of "building your own servers" are just what I need. Thank You, so much new knowledge here!

[ixpecrs]

Hello Roman! I am a young civil engineer and you saved me with those videos! I will recommend your channel to all my tech friends! Stay healthy and happy!

[gillugaming]

Oh man i am crying 😭 i am from india and watching your video whole playlist of home server setup after searching all over internet and my district night 1:30 PM
Thanku man love you man,
Your covered everything man 😭
I love you man, thanks thanks huge thanks. I completed my dream to make a home server for my minecraft server. I cheated by many hosting websites but now i will watch all videos and set it up from home 🙏huge thanks 😭😭😭

[tharais]

Oh and Roman:

I forgot to add, thank you for this video. It is much more down to earth than others I have viewed on this topic of a simple, home server build. I find it much more useful than most.

Tom

[selvin]

Great stuff bro... I want to build my own web server at home. I will follow this video as guide. Thanks!

[hunterscott]

To emphasize the ECC memory part, what ECC does is add a layer of extra protection. If you are building a server and that will have a lot of critical information transferred onto it that won’t already be on another device, it is vital that you get ECC however, it is not necessary for a solely backup server as long as it is for BACKUPS. Just try and keep in mind what you want to do with the servers.

[boondoc]

I don't want to build one so thank you for this knowledge. Keep them coming given you time allotted

[MusikWeavers]

excellent no-bs video. from Switzerland yet your English is great!

[patrickwu]

Just what I need...one of the best channel on utube...

[t_Radikl]

Looks like I found the hardware guide. Thanks for this series!!

[frankwalder]

I built a real ‘home server’, as you call it. It is an HP DL380 Gen9 with redundant 800 Watt PSUs, RAID 5, though it boots off a Samsung 960Gb 970 Evo Pro. It has redundant BIOS and a secondary boot Micro SD chip. I took the luxury of adding a sound card and a graphics accelerator. My dual E5-2667v3 CPUs are a little slower, but I have more cores, and 256Gb of ECC RAM. What you describe is a workstation trying to act like a “server”. What I have is a real server that I sometimes use as a workstation.

[DArcySarjeant]

Thank you for this great video. Helpful for a guy like me :)

[erishboiitv]

I'm looking for This.
Thanks :)

greetings from Philippines

[laloquera]

Thanks for sharing!! Look forward for the next video!!

[TramNguyenEnglish]

Great Video. I am finding the guide to build home server but it have on in intenet. Thank you so much

[PatrickChapmanuk]

I did a similar thing with an old ProLiant ML110 G7 server that I purchased back in 2012. I decided to upgrade the ram to 16GB and install a spare SSD drive for the OS. I also bought the best CPU available (I5-680 3.6GHz) on Ebay for this MB, but yet to install it. Even still it's a very responsive server with no system lag. I'm running WSE 2019 in RAID -0 with respectable LAN speeds of around 60 - 85MB/s with 1 Gigabit connectivity.

My only complaint is that it's using USB 2 for slower speeds of 30MB/s from my external drives. Also it can only carry 4 SATA drives. Interestingly though it has the ability to run 8 SFF drives, but way to expensive and unnecessary for my needs.

I'm considering attaching a SATA extension card, but need to find the space to hold the drives first. I saw a 4x NVMe PCiE card available, but I doubt it will run on my old 2012 MB and BIOS. I could go 10GBe with a card extension perhaps. But I will probably just install a USB 3 card instead (MB permitting), as I normally have all my raw data on external USB drives.

All in all though it generally meets my back up and web sever needs. Between this and my old LG NAS which my sever quietly backs up too. I have no use for anything other than RAID 0. Which means I have more available capacity and better read and write speeds. It's not the fastest system of course. But compared to buying a new NAS it's a bargain with the RAM upgrade only costing £45 and the CPU upgrade for £20. Plus one extra bonus, it's very quiet for a server, almost silent.

[RedDawnGamin]

this sounds interesting looking forward to see more like this

[happycoding]

Love from India superb the way you teach is mind blowing

[allenjos]

bro thanks for the no ads. i wonder if the companies that pay for the promos ask for analytics to see if their adverts get watched. by the way I'm understanding you very well. i think alot of people will learn from you.

[theskeptic]

chirp chirp...very good video. I've been wanting to build my own server for some time now. I will try this. Thanks.