ideas and help for first time server.

[BigTroll]

Hello, I was thinking about building a cheap server but I have some questions more so on the software then the hardware.the board I was planing to use is a DG31 something cheap intel board with a pentium e2180 and 2gb, however it does not have raid.

I was planing on using FreeNAS and heard that it can do a software raid as i have two identical Hitachi 160gb disks, next I would like to keep it in the garage so I was wondering if I installed a wireless adapter could my server sleep and be woken up from the wifi adapter?

any comments, ideas appreciated.

[diif]

Re: ideas and help for first time server.

What are you intending to use the server for ? and unless you have ac wireless the gigabit port on that motherboard will be much faster and more consistent. There are wireless adapters that support WoWLAN but they are built into the motherboard and don't use the pci bus.

[BigTroll]

Re: ideas and help for first time server.

mainly just want to use it as a sharepoint so guests could copy their movies to it and then i could pull them to my various computers etc.

[diif]

Re: ideas and help for first time server.

What wireless do you have ? I think it's going to be a bottleneck if you are then sending it to other computers.

[Topcat]

Re: ideas and help for first time server.

mainly just want to use it as a sharepoint so guests could copy their movies to it and then i could pull them to my various computers etc.

You want nothing less than gigabit copper for that...

[eccerr0r]

Re: ideas and help for first time server.

That reminds me of transferring stuff between my computers. I had 30GB to transfer and glad that I had Gbit Ethernet else I'd be waiting and waiting for it to transfer...especially with interference from neighbors, etc.