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Saturday, May 14, 2005
New home server update
Well the new home server is coming along nicely. I ended up ordering a 430watt cooler master power supply from NewEgg.com on Monday. Both boxes ended up arriving on Thursday.
I realized I had an Antec ks-188 full tower case down the basement. Heh, how I managed to forget I had that I don’t know! So I decided to use that instead of buying a junk mid tower with a no name brand power supply. I set a budget of 200 bucks so I was very limited. Using the Antec case allowed me to spring for a better quality power supply which is a good thing for a server. Running 24/7/365 with lots of hardware you should have a good supply. Nothing worse than some generic supply blowing out on you!
So anyways. I tossed everything together and it booted up perfectly on the first try.
The Windows Server 2003 SBS Install went easy enough as well. I’m just slowly getting things setup and installed. Really, I’m having fun just playing around with my new toy!
Right now the server isn’t doing much. It’ll just cover my basic development needs. In the future when I can afford to I’ll put in a large Raid-5 array so the server will become my central file and backup server too.
There is one issue I’m having. I need to find an anti-virus scanner that will work with windows server. I use the free edition of AVG on my system but it won’t allow me to install it on windows server. Does anyone happen to know of a free/cheap AV scanner that would work? Well I guess I could shell out 70 bucks for the AVG File Server edition if I have to.
NOD32 you say? Don’t know anything about it. Guess I’ll have to go take a looksy. Thanks!
Not that I’m in any rush. It’s an internal server so the only way anything can get on it is by first being on one of the desktops and they all all AV protection. 
on 05/15/2005 at 01:29 PM
I’d go with NOD32 instead. Although Kaspersky is my first choice but it costs too much.