Building a Home Server – The Complete Guide @ SSDReview

Being somewhat of a server snob I often find myself chuckling at guides like this.  Most of them are built to insane levels as an attempt to show off while other guides are designed for real world situations.  I would consider this guide to be the first.

Let's go down the line, 24TB of storage space.  Not many people can afford that kind of storage and unless you are building a storage server there is little need. On top of that how are you going to back up your data?  Hardware RAID will only save you from hardware failure and, for most, that is often enough.

Many people never consider data corruption which is why you need to have daily backups of your important data and make sure storage is separated from OS.

Over the past few years, The SSD Review has enjoyed a fairly smooth ride with little to complain about. It wasn’t until our readership explosion that we realized how important backups were. There is nothing worse than a site crash, other than a site crash which also contains a Forum of course.  The sudden loss of days, weeks, months and even years’ worth of data cannot arguably be equal to that of valuable Forum members who hate seeing their threads gone. It happened.

Even worse was the fact that our hosting company was receiving premium monthly payments for daily backups, the last of which they had completed some two months prior.  It was only for the odd feeling that we had prior to leaving on Christmas vacation that we physically downloaded backups, minimizing our information loss to two weeks.  Although website material resulted only in the loss of our Acer S7 Ultrabook Review, the loss of forum posts could never be equaled.

I like how this server build was sparked by a server crash and the lack of appropriate  backups.  Personally I think they could have done better with the hardware and based on the hardware they picked it shouldn't have cost 5k.  Heck I have built better servers for less (minus the insane storage requirement) On top of that the drives were sponsored so what cost so much?

Looks like I'll have to do my own guide. 

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