File Server construction guide-preparation (1)

The surge in mobile devices, multi-computer homes, broadband Internet access, low-cost massive storage, and many other home electronic products have been replaced by PCS, for example, media devices such as DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and CD players are replaced by the home theater PC, which leads to an increasing interest in dedicated file server computers. Whether you are an ordinary home user with a desktop or laptop, or an advanced user with multiple desktops, laptops, netbooks, and tablets, if you access your home system remotely at work or on the road, your computing experience may be enriched by shared data access. Regardless of your budget and storage requirements, the file server system build guide described in this article can meet your needs.

What is a file server?

In fact, a file server is a computer responsible for storing files, connecting to the network, and providing shared mechanisms for multiple workstation computers to access those files. The file server does not execute any computing tasks-that is, they do not run programs for the client. In addition, they do not provide dynamic content as the Web server does. In addition, the file server is not like the database server, because the former does not provide access to the shared database, while the latter provides such access. The file server can provide access to static files through the Local intranet through the Windows or Unix protocol, or through the file transmission or Hypertext Transfer Protocol FTP and HTTP), through the Internet, provides access to static files.
What can a file server do?

The main function of the file server is storage. For home users, a central storage location can improve the overall computing efficiency and reduce the overall computing cost. After you place all important files in one location, you don't have to worry about processing files of different versions, you don't have to worry about wasting disk space because multiple unimportant files are distributed across different systems. You can back up the appropriate files to the appropriate backup storage media through a suitable computer, make sure that every PC in the house can access suitable files, and so on.

 

From the perspective of system builders, file servers can also free up your workstation computers without having to accommodate multiple hard disks and reduce the overall hard disk cost. With the rise of SSD-this emerging hard drive provides extremely high performance, but the storage cost per GB is high, file Servers can free workstation from the performance constraints of standard disks-this is especially important for laptops and netbooks; small capacity of solid state drives is often a key obstacle, because these mobile computers usually have only one hard disk.

The dedicated File Server allows every user in the House to access every file at home or on the road, regardless of the specific device they use at a specific time. The dedicated File Server also allows you to share your files with friends and colleagues, as long as you provide them with URLs, login names and passwords, and then specify the content that the other party can access. For example, you may want to share your children's camping photos with friends and family, but your cloud storage capacity cannot fit all those photos and all the other content you previously stored on the cloud storage hard disk. Maybe you want to share sensitive information with your colleagues instead of uploading sensitive information to a server owned by Amazon or another third-party organization, but the file is too large, it cannot be sent by email. Or when you are on a business trip, you just want to access the GB MP3 library, but you have only one netbook with a 60 gb ssd. These examples only reflect a small part of the efficiency of the file server.

However, to meet all these requirements, apart from the file server, there are other options. You can pour all the photos onto the USB flash drive and hand them over to the other side the next time you see friends and family-but every time you want to share more photos, you can only do this, who knows if you will take the USB flash drive back? You can also mail the DVD-R CD to colleagues, but may be about 4 GB of DVD-R CD capacity is not big enough, mail sent through the post office at least a few days to deliver. If you are on the road, you may only have a portable external hard disk. If you do not take up much space for the moment, it may be lost or stolen. File Server is a simple solution to all these problems. Family file servers do not require enterprise-level hardware and have low costs. They can also be built with power-consuming components that do not result in soaring electricity usage.