Thanks to your excellent guide I have successfully set up my media server using an old mobo/cpu and other spare parts plus four new 2TB hard drives. I have everything running well now but want I want to do next is set up the storage pool using software Raid 5 and then use LVM on top of that. My aim ...

Hi. I installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 a couple of weeks ago on a 64 GB SSD and then added four 2 TB hard drives which I successfully mounted my media files onto. I have set up the OS using LVM. I have been playing around with the OS and for various reasons decided to re-install on the SSD. I've done t...

Thanks to you both for your helpful comments. I was coming to the same conclusions on RAID but it's good to hear it from the experts. Now to get to grips with KVM...

Hello, First of all let me say thank you for producing and making available the server build guide. I had been looking for ages for something that described how to build a home media server and this does exactly that and is much appreciated! That said, the danger is that it takes a novice like me (I...