How to Build a Budget Home Server and WHY You Should!

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• please do more videos like this for beginners (talk slower maybe? :') ) I want to try most of these with a miniPC or just a dumpster build or something but all at once is pretty overwhelming

• ZACH WHAT SERVER RACK DO YOU USEEE

• A NAS literally only needs one core enabled, even if it's streaming video. This means that you can disable all cores except one to reduce power usage, though I haven't checked by exactly how much.

• hmmm what if the wifi goes off??? I have spectrum!! what ios the backup plan?

• Imma save this, it looks cool, sounds cool, but I don't have the capacity to build one yet.

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• What an eloquent vid.. very good

• Hey nice vid just a qq what kind of OS server is running into that machine?

• Wanted to try this and then i remembered i love in a rural area with shoddy internet at best.l that too is mobile data not a broadband connection. 😢

• This gave very minimal actual practical tutorial detail on how to go about doing this. How much $ neede for various budget/needs… what is the difference between a true server vs just a dekstop running as one?…why rack mount vs not? Exact specs needed for different needs? etc. All this video serves as is a 10min commercial on why having your own media server is good.

• So let's say I wanted to build a homelab using some similar hardware that you've shown. NAS, plex, sandboxes, whatever. If I'm not using it for gaming, I don't need a super fancy graphics card. But if I DO want to stream media for 2-3 people, do I need a more powerful GPU, or does the CPU handle most of that? Recommendations for a budget build without the need for gaming?

• Winbloat

• Upgrade to RTX 4060 LP when?

• Came here as a complete beginner looking for ideas. Couldn't keep up or understand you talk way to fast too keep up

• Hey bro I want to talk with you about server details

• Very cool video. I'm just now seeing this a year later. I'm running a AMD 3900x as my main machine, thinking about upgrading and making this a server. I've played around with VMs on this machine, and even Linux Lite distro running on VMware is super slow.

• how its better than commercial nas

• RTX Z 9080 😢

• RTX Z 90800add!! PC!!

• RTX add!! PC!!

• As an electrical engineer, I’m really interested in this for virtualization technology for robots

• I felt personally attacked with that comment about using external hard drives to transfer files. 😂😂

  Unfortunately ive learned my lesson due to corrupt flash drives. 😢😢

• Depending on how many games you need to host an NVMe drive will give better performance for the server.

• Can i Use it for minecraft server 24/7?

• Windows NT fans

• how expensive is the electrical bill

• I absolutely hate that you decided to add "budget" in your title but proceed to never say prices throughout the video….

• You just build your own NAS, that what you are saying? NAS is very expensive.

• Watching this vid helped me understand the concept a bit better. I have been using an older Acer Aspire media PC as a Plex server for awhile now. I was previously using a budget Celeron build I did in 2020 as the server but that has since been upgraded and repurposed for photo editing. Watching this has me kicking around the idea of adding more features to the Aspire such as having it run as my NAS with an external raid enclosure.

• Windows on a homeserver 🙄

• i think i opend my mind to much

• Why is it that big of a deal to have a laptop or a separate monitor and keyboard when you could just setup Remote Desktop services???

• You have the wrong ATX power supply for this case. A power supply with an 80mm fan goes into this case. for example SeaSonic SSP-400ES2

• video starts at 2:49

• Gotta say, buying up stock to flip it is the reason I can't buy parts right now. Please stop doing that.

• hi. im a retired IT Tech. Left this whole in last 2 years. Can no longer catch up new tech and health issues. Wish to all new generation, good luck.

• Could I create a movie server and charge people access to said server?

• I always wanted a server rack for my daily use! I want one but I think my appartement is too small. I've got to wait until I got my house

• If you get a chance can you update the build links as some of the items are no longer available to buy.

• I have an old motherboard with alot of potential still kicking around. 8 sata 3.0 ports. Making it a server is such a good idea

• Hello sir how are you?
  I have a application mobile and I want create a server as back end but I don't know which hard disk should I choose so can you give me your advice? Someone said to me seget x16

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