By Philip Churchill on February 10th, 2010
Build your own WHS on the Cheap using an old PC
Computer Shopper have a tips & tricks guide on how to build your own Windows Home Server, which explains how to cook up and configure your own WHS on the cheap using an old PC.
The massive 9 part article goes through the minimum parts needed, installation and configuration, setting up users and Windows clients, installing add-ins including other apps like Firefly Media Server and Orb. Finally the guide looks at using Windows Home Server with a Mac.
You can find it here.
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Want to build your own Home Server? Buy the oem software but get an old server, not an old desktop, through Ebay since a server is built to be such. I recommend the PowerEdge 500SC since it is an IDE based system. Then add to that base system with 4 x 512mb pc133 ecc memory modules, a pci-x gigbit ethernet card and a dvdrom. Upgrade the bios to A07. Phillip has a photgraph of one of my recent builds which utilized a scsi card and a PowerVault 14-bay scsi device.