GibsonSGKing
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Firstly, I very recently bought a Dell Poweredge 2850 for $25. It's got 3 36GB 15,000 RPM SCSI drives, and 1.5gb of RAM. Is this a good deal at all? I know absolutely nothing about servers, but have always been very curious so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm pretty savvy with Windows and hardware in general, so I don't really think there's anything here that's impossible, I just don't really know where to start.
My goal is to make a home server, for music, movies, documents, and a weekly backup of some of my files. At the moment, this server is running Ubuntu 11.04. If needed, I can put on a different version of Linux, and can get a copy of any version of Windows. I have a ton of OS disks lying about, some of which I've never even used. So, if this OS is a bad starting point, I'd like to remedy that before I get any farther.
Also, what software can I use to get files from one place to another? The only thing I've used in the past is Filezilla, but will that still work if my windows machines are NTFS and this linux one isn't? Thank you for all help
My goal is to make a home server, for music, movies, documents, and a weekly backup of some of my files. At the moment, this server is running Ubuntu 11.04. If needed, I can put on a different version of Linux, and can get a copy of any version of Windows. I have a ton of OS disks lying about, some of which I've never even used. So, if this OS is a bad starting point, I'd like to remedy that before I get any farther.
Also, what software can I use to get files from one place to another? The only thing I've used in the past is Filezilla, but will that still work if my windows machines are NTFS and this linux one isn't? Thank you for all help