Turn your OLD PC into your NEW HOME SERVER

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Raid Owl

Күн бұрын

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@locnar1701 Ай бұрын

"We're on Windows, we have no morals". Most excellent and correct.

@wartlme Ай бұрын

You might want to add a discussion about setting the BIOS to turn on the server after a power outage so the computer boots up after electrical outages. I also tweaked my power usage by using cpuinfo-freq or whatever it is called. I also tweaked some machines to spin down the hard drives. This is only done on machines that run backups once a day, so it is okay to do this.

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Good call

@l0gic23 Ай бұрын

You just did...

@wojtek-33 Ай бұрын

I have all my servers and desktops to stay off after power outage. When we have outages, it may come back on for a minute and then go back off. Doing this multiple times. Not trying to corrupt anything, especially if the UPS is dead.

@wartlme Ай бұрын

@@wojtek-33 I get it. Other parts of the country have poor electrical systems, and they lose power more often than I do. In my area, we lose power once a year. Having it power on after a power outage works because we have a reliable electrical system. When I set up a server for someone else, they might not even know how to power it up. That is my use case, and it works for me. Your use case might be much different. Adjust as needed. This is a choice each sys admin must make. When you have hundreds of servers to power back on, you want them to power on automatically.

@fujinshu Ай бұрын

@@wartlmeBest thing IMO is to get an IPKVM that can interact with the ATX power and reset button signals of your computer. At least that way, it allows for a remote start without needing to have it constantly boot up after getting power, which lengthens the life of the system.

@robster7787 Ай бұрын

This is honestly some really good timing, I have three PCs just gathering dust. Two found in an dumpster from a college apartment complex, and one that is a leftover gaming PC stripped down to just missing a GPU and boot drive. I had just finished making a mini VPN machine with my old raspberry Pi 4. I was getting really frustrated with other video tutorials already on KZbin that only made it a plex server, when in reality I want it to do other stuff. Edit: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you visit college campuses and check their IT surplus, or also check nearby college housing dumpsters because computers, components, and peripherals. You wouldn’t believe how much IT equipment is thrown away.

@subhrajitkarmakar6499 Ай бұрын

Can you tell location??? I'll go shopping...

@XashA12Musk 25 күн бұрын

@@subhrajitkarmakar6499 bro in india, it is difficult. i have tried in my university

@romayojr Ай бұрын

hardware haven would be proud.

@HardwareHaven Ай бұрын

I am.

@tannermorris8956 Ай бұрын

Talk about nerding out.....I recently got a 15U server rack and am trying to figure out what kind of home server I want to build in it lol. Your channel started me down this rabbit hole for sure!

@AntonoirJacques Ай бұрын

This is the video that has finally made me set up the server that I've been planning for a while.

@heatherryan9820 22 күн бұрын

Thanks for the no-bs, no fluff, basic setup. These are the kind of install videos I like.

@mpacholik Ай бұрын

Hell yeah my current PC has an Intel 2600K and is still gaming strong. Can’t wait to squeeze another 13 years out of it when it becomes a server lol

@notreal5311 Ай бұрын

Gotta look at the power costs over 13 years vs buying some lower power setup. Sometimes the new machine pays for itself quickly in electricity costs.

@solorke 3 күн бұрын

have the same proc but intels wesite sais no virtualization feature, is it that bad ??

@mpacholik 3 күн бұрын

@ pretty sure the 2600k has virtualization, at least on Z68

@jeffnew1213 Ай бұрын

RAID 1 is actually faster than a single drive in reads because both drives can be read at once, assembling the requested data up to twice as fast.

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Run this test then report back. You won’t get double speed.

@chuckintexas 3 күн бұрын

Which raid allows striping with an additional drive for redundancy ? I'm just looking into this , and am interested in the delivery performance with striping , but need The redundancy. Any suggestions you can offer would be welcome - Thanks !

@jeffnew1213 3 күн бұрын

@@chuckintexas RAID 4 offers data striping with a dedicated parity drive. It is rarely used these days, but UnRaid offers something similar with similar benefits and drawbacks. RAID 5 and RAID 6 offer striping with distributed parity. That's where the parity stripes share space with data stripes on each and every disk in the set. These are the most common forms of RAID in use today. RAID 10 offers redundancy by mirroring a striped array (without using parity). Benefitting speed at the cost of space, as the size of any RAID 10 array is double the size needed for data alone. Other forms of RAID, 50, 60, etc. exist, but are less commonly used. Recommend RAID 5 for smaller disks and smaller arrays where a reliable backup is accessible. RAID 6 for larger drives and arrays due to the length of time it takes to incorporate a new drive into the array after a drive failure. A reliable backup should be in place here as well.

@philipprudhomme6967 Ай бұрын

Thank you Brett. It's great that you've covered Windows shares. Keep safe and well.

@JordosTechShack Ай бұрын

Oh the diablotek PSU. Brings back memories of the early 200s, and buying budget parts online from part stores and suppliers, before Newegg and Amazon took it all over.

@Yuriel1981 Ай бұрын

Man you been building a long time brotha, lol. I had just bought my own first computer around that time(early 2000s) . As I finally had my first job and I was a poor kid...

@Kajukota Ай бұрын

Was that back in New Tristram or Old Tristram. Can't remember which was built by 200.

@UnlimitedUtopia Ай бұрын

biblically accurate pc

@andreas.grundler Ай бұрын

This is exactly what I did a few weeks ago. After I accidentally fried my old QNAP NAS, I converted my old PC into a NAS. I currently have TrueNAS Scale installed on it. I still need to work on the power consumption as it currently draws around 45W which a bit much for my taste. The GTX 1060 is overkill and will probably be replaced by an Intel Arc A310 soon.

@veremlim Ай бұрын

You’re a hoot, my man! Thank you for the simple to follow guide.

@clipthisoutdoors Ай бұрын

I see what you did there 😂

@jonjohnson2844 Ай бұрын

Been using the same CPU in my unraid box for about 4 years, honestly never seen any need to upgrade it yet and it literally sips power.

@kevinhu196 Ай бұрын

Some note about the Windows setup, Docker isn't the greatest with Windows bind mounts or generally NTFS compared to Windows natively, for storage heavy application (nzbget, torrent download and extraction) the speed is significantly slower. And sometime if you bind mount from a Windows directory to a mysql, postgres container, the app wouldn't run at it. For the latter, you can just bind mount your WSL home directory (which is stored as a .vhdx file on Windows) and problem go away. While for storage heavy apps like nzb, plex, it might make more sense to run it bare metal, also with Docker you can't access iGPU for transcoding. But if you do so that way, you lose ability to manage it from a terminal over SSH so you must use Remote Desktop or Rustdesk to manage it.

@mattturner4620 Ай бұрын

Its scary that this is exactly how I was planning on spending my morning.

@l0gic23 Ай бұрын

Nothing scary, its just 5G neurolink and AI generation, due to quantum, you get that real-real...

@aaronb483 Ай бұрын

Clever

@ChristianGutierrez Ай бұрын

Finally someone showing a server on windows! Thank you!! ❤

@SHO1989 19 минут бұрын

Agreed. Windows gets an awful lot of hate but when you get right down to it, when it comes to storage, storage spaces is crazy simple to use. All in a GUI with 30 years of your muscle memory making it intuitive to use. Don't get me wrong, I like and use Truenas on another box as my backup raid and it works great but it is so new to me everything I need to do on it becomes a learning experience.

@markmonroe7330 Ай бұрын

Excellent presentation. Thank you. I have mostly been loading Proxmox on my old systems. I find that for me the biggest issue with "old hardware" is the wattage draw on a lot of it. Striping out anything not needed like video cards and try to stick with SSD can help. That said, a video on powertop with some real world testing would be amazing.

@project_mini_hero Ай бұрын

This brings back memories of when i used virtualbox on my pc and then moved to physical hypervisors.

@clipthisoutdoors Ай бұрын

So helpful! I recently bought a computer to convert into a Minecraft server. I think I now have some other thing to try now

@SHO1989 15 минут бұрын

Just watching this video now and realize I'm late to the party but wanted to comment. "I've got the creativity of a stick." made me literally laugh out loud.

@samuelriveros6446 Ай бұрын

I have learned so much today. Thanks.

@kiefferciullo8561 Ай бұрын

Truenas actually uses some strange form of Kubernetes. I don't use it. For some reason, the apps don't play nice with a reverse proxy. That could be a misconfiguration on my end, but I just find it easier to stand up a Docker host on a separate and dedicated VM.

@Redmage913 Ай бұрын

My most recent issue was *not* having enough chassis for my systems - thankfully, my sister picked up a non-functional HP Pavilion 500 from the Haswell era. I shoved an Intel DH67BL with an i7-2600 (yay ATX standards, even if the board is installed upside-down!), and I’m going to upgrade my Core 2 Duo Samba/Jellyfin/Plex server from one 3TB drive to 4x2TB SATA SSDs. I’m hoping it’ll only sip power, and I might eventually get an ARC card for transcoding!

@Redmage913 Ай бұрын

Edit - retiring the C2D for the 2600 :)

@johnnyg3606 Ай бұрын

Great video mate, I used the similar one you made couple years back to get me started

@nasifibnnasim 9 күн бұрын

Thank you very much. It was really really helpful video. I needed this video.

@UnkyjoesPlayhouse Ай бұрын

Excellent presentation, all of the options clearly explained.

@darkkknight74 Ай бұрын

Brett another Banger keep it up buddy cant wait to see your holiday content

@DottieMaddox Ай бұрын

I have no idea what you just said, but I really enjoyed your content and humor!!!

@greatpix 2 күн бұрын

I've been using home computers since the late 70's. Mainframes a for a couple of years before that. Given, it's been awhile since I played around with virtual machines, WANs. and such (we probably both had more hair) but I remember the reason I gave up on it was because of overhead and other hits on the CPU/GPU everything was slower than I could stand. I'd been using Linux long enough that after years of frustration with it the first version where everything worked was 7.10, the next version broke things again and I gave up on it. I tried Boot Camp - alright - and various version of Parallels - meh. All the above makes me want to ask, how bad is the overhead hit doing all of this with computers from the last 5-10 years? Not what's the minimum hardware requirements but what do you need to have a really good experience with everything? My only home networking is using Emby server. Years ago I switched to Emby because Plex wasn't tagging as many titles, or tagging then correctly, as Emby was.

@manuelvisintin9807 Ай бұрын

I5 4 gen isn't last CPU, i convert net storage a i atom d525. 4 gen cpu is good cpu for normal home activities, can run windows without problem. On problem power draw, bit high.

@chuckintexas 3 күн бұрын

@sadravin1 Ай бұрын

you forgot to mention that the windows server will reset every day. at max, you can put it off 7 days. with a 3rd party app you can push it 90. but that is the limit

@Forevergames-vn6gd 9 күн бұрын

I am learning but first question, Can I still run it as a windows gaming unit while it runs the servers? I have not old equipment. I would like to have all the server functions as well as a friend have a terminal to game when coming over.

@thedevtoss Ай бұрын

That's exactly what I've done with my old PC and it's been flawless, great job! Although, I'd go with wg-easy for the VPN

@BeardedLearza Ай бұрын

came across this after setting up my true nas server lol almost perfect timing, may go with true nas again for a virtualization server but i am tempted to make it a proxmox server for that and keep storage and back up storage on true nas.

@henryd4331 Ай бұрын

The whole VPN idea scares me to bits. There's no way I am going to expose my home network to the Internet. Awesome tutorial otherwise!

@sujaybhakat2548 Ай бұрын

Using the new m4 mac mini a home server for running home assistant plex bitwarden etc

@Yuriel1981 Ай бұрын

I both understand and agree with why you went with windows for this video as most regular users are familiar with windows. And this vid is great! Awesome tips and setup. But for some reason, Windows servers make me shutter a bit. Lol I am running Truenas Scale like in the second part of the video. Specifically as a learning experience. But being able to run a VM if Truenas presents difficulties is nice as well.

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Lol good thing I used TrueNAS too

@Yuriel1981 Ай бұрын

@RaidOwl Lol I had just edited to include that brotha. It's a great system even with some of the setup difficulties I have encountered. Still having issues connecting my local Ollama to my HA VM.

@deechvogt1589 Ай бұрын

Thanks Brett for a very informative video.

@TazzSmk Ай бұрын

this video just hits perfect, I've been using all sorts of systems (mainly Synology DSM and Proxmox with Docker VM), so it's nice to see such roundup from time to time, gotta take a deeper look into Docker setup within Windows, because despite all the blasphemy Windows remains the most advanced option when it comes to GUI and software/hardware support, I wanna ask though, is there some (third-party) WEB UI for managing Windows? I remember Windows Admin Center from Win Server, but it's rather barren imo

@pav1u 12 күн бұрын

i want to do this but how could you be able to acess files outside your home network??

@BrunodeSouzaLino Ай бұрын

Another downside of VMs in TrueNAS is it takes your graphics card for itself. If you want to do GPU passthrough, you need another graphics card.

@solorke 3 күн бұрын

My 2600K intel i7 is not havin the mentioned virtualization feature, in case i convert, what am i missing out on?

@Viking8888 Ай бұрын

Nice video as always Mr. Owl!

@sadravin1 Ай бұрын

when the pc reboots, how do you prevent data loss and make it restart everything automatically?

@LennartDaniyyel 16 күн бұрын

My cpu has virtualization but mu bios hasn't any VT -x option and is disabled, what can i do without virtualization?

@sadessnuk1955 Ай бұрын

Its always nice to watch your videos, i always get new knowledge. And i have some questions about building a NAS, i have 0 knowledge, buying a ready made NAS like ASUSTOR/Synology is too expensive for me. I watched some videos but still have some questions in mind. I hope someone can answer. 1. Can Home Server / NAS be accessed from outside? i mean i travel alot 2. Is it possible to make each account have their own folder and can only access to their own files? 3. My MiniPC only have 1x M.2 Slot and 1x SataIII Slot. So i plan to use USB3.2 Flashdrive as boot and M.2 as main storage, is there a way to automaticly mirror/backup M.2 to sata HDD?

@arjungupta3531 Ай бұрын

6:04 cmon hyperv is easier for someone who needs this guide quick rate is literally all a person like that would want and then docker for microservices

@jujjuj7676 Ай бұрын

I hate these new PC cases, I need bays in front like the vintage ones had for raid drives the new ones dont have crap anymore but fans. Anyone know good place for old NEW cases with multi bays in front?

@HarishCousal-zj9lv 27 күн бұрын

Is there any way to convert mirror driver to other raid without loosing data

@LEGnewTube Ай бұрын

Huge! Thank you!

@reddeviluk Ай бұрын

I literally just offered a Aoostar WTR PRO which should arrive in a few weeks. I fully intend to use windows and set it up as a NAS, hoping to get Plex and also Google Photo alternative so this is ideal timing. Anyone know of any good Google Photo alternatives and also if there's any such thing as a free remote management dashboard to be able to monitor cpu temps, disk space etc (like Pulseway). Thanks

@B_r_u_c_e Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@lamar9525 Ай бұрын

No, your DDDR2! And great info!

@geesharp6637 Ай бұрын

I find TrueNAS an odd choice. Top complex for just a share. VM and docked in it is meh. Probably would have chosen Proxmox and add what you need on top. Some simple lxc to create shares and VM support is way better.

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Cool

@MarloMitchell Ай бұрын

Why not use Hyper-V? its right there in windows.

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Not in Home edition

@MarloMitchell Ай бұрын

@@RaidOwl Using Home Edition is always a sad sight to see, sorry to hear dude. I think using Hyper-V that's already built in is always a better option but that's just be. I enjoy your uploads, keep up the good work.

@Innocentdarkness72 Ай бұрын

cool video !!

@V1N_574 Ай бұрын

I'm user dockers and my friends have been properly informed

@AllSeeingEy3 Ай бұрын

Instructions unclear friends unimpressed

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

🥲

@joepalovick1915 Ай бұрын

Great video. Thanks for showing the Windows piece too.

@BezZnaczeniaa Ай бұрын

diablotek 400 watt, sounds ominous 😈

@darsparx 23 күн бұрын

I'd love to see this but with k3s on fedora. Something I've meant to do forever but keep screwing up 😂

@shib5267 Ай бұрын

Diablotek is a banger name for your brand lmao

@ToucheFarming Ай бұрын

MSI is a chinese motherboard? thought they were Taiwanese?

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Lol I misspoke. Wrote the script before swapping out the MB 😅

@CPPRODUCTIONS1001 Ай бұрын

I know it was a mistake but its actually a massive issue between the two countries. Both claim to be china

@l0gic23 Ай бұрын

@@CPPRODUCTIONS1001I thought Taiwan 🇹🇼 wants nothing to do with China 🇨🇳? Well, the China that has persisted at least. I think they are happy to go forward as a independent country, no?

@robbyarng Ай бұрын

Killroy was here.

@hornetbad Ай бұрын

Oh my god i am a DDR2 👀

@allanbsantos Ай бұрын

O cara lá fala que um i5 é velho 😢. Aqui nossa realidade ainda é Pentium 2 e athlon

@Brinkmasterj Ай бұрын

can i use your server to clobe my vm's :D

@knowledgepower3558 7 күн бұрын

Oh hell nah yall ain't got no morals 😂 Well at least he honest omg. As a full time Linux/Mac and part time windows user . I guess that means I have some morals 😂

@phillipmartinez583 Ай бұрын

Diabotek PSU... You trying to burn the house down?

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Yes

@BenReese Ай бұрын

IMO, nobody should be using Windows 10 for this. Win 10 goes out of support in October 2025. Yes, it will continue to run, but at risk of joining a botnet within a couple years. Also.... Win 10 / 11 Pro supports Hyper-V. Probably not as portable as VirtualBox, but more integrated.

@bluesquadron593 Ай бұрын

T-shirt approved

@truckerallikatuk Ай бұрын

PS: That diablotek PSU is definitely E-waste. Possibly pyrotechnically e-waste.

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

Works great

@arjungupta3531 Ай бұрын

0:37 bro what if its your kid

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

I said what I said

@FranciscoMartinsKiko Ай бұрын

My old pc it's Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz

@HyPex808-2 Ай бұрын

Here for the comments…🍿😂

@daniellee930 Ай бұрын

@awillyerd4996 Ай бұрын

You wearing that shirt because of a lost bet?

@awillyerd4996 Ай бұрын

But really, cool content. I like that creators (like you, techno tim, etc.) are lowering the barrier for entry to homelabbing by giving simple instructions and budget friendly options. Another banger Bert, thanks.

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

No. I like it.

@justrosy5 Ай бұрын

And exactly HOW am I supposed to use this when my ISP wants $600 per month MINIMUM and wants me to call it a "Business Plan" or else they'll cut off my Internet altogether????

@RaidOwl Ай бұрын

idk..?

@johnthomas2970 Ай бұрын

Is this NBN 😳

@TazzSmk Ай бұрын

you don't need to open this up online, you can start by building up your local network, without anything being open on the internet

@stephenreaves3205 Ай бұрын

The irony of copying and pasting terminal commands from the internet on windoze... Is this cultural appropriation?

@WilReid Ай бұрын

Some misinformation in this video. Clearly that box is black, not white. Also, RAID 1 does or can have some speed benefits on reads, both throughput and latency.