How To Make Your Own Home Server

We’ve got to that point where most people have more computers in their home than TVs. Who can blame us? TVs are dumb devices, while computers will do everything a TV can and so much more.

It’s not a typical case, but it wouldn’t be far from the truth to describe editor Alan’s house as a laptop graveyard. Turn over a cushion here or a sofa there and scores of the damn things come tumbling out, we’re not making this up.

That’s the problem, while once we used to have a single desktop, now we’ve got a host of devices: a gaming desktop, a living room PC, multiple laptops, netbooks and Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, such as the ubiquitous iPhone.

The principle of convenience is great but where do you start to store all of your documents, files, music and other media? Leaving files dotted around on different machines or USB drives is hardly a good idea.

There’s always ‘the cloud’ but that’s not going to work very well for your huge music collection or library of HD movies. There is a better solution… The home server.

Possibly, three of the dullest words you’ve recently read but stick with us, we’re going to show you how one can revolutionise your home. Based around the FreeNAS server operating system we’re going to show you how this can be linked with inexpensive hardware to create a perfect centralised storage and media server system.

Wrapped up as a 74MB download this all-in-one OS, NAS and server packs a serious amount of versatility into a tiny package. Just to start its software RAID can span a bunch of hard drives together, so you can pack epic levels of storage into a single shared network drive.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as part of the distribution it comes with a host of handy features: it’s a UPnP Media server, iTunes server, Bittorrent client and can function as an FTP and webserver.

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