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I wrote this article not because I’ve built a home server but because I’m on the verge of doing it and I’d like to justify (to myself) why building one is reasonable and why I chose the parts I did. I want to build a home server because I realize that I have content (pictures, home movies, etc). This content used to be stored on an external hard drive, but when that hard drive died, I lost a good chunk of it. Since then, I’ve moved the rest to a Windows Storage Pool. But then I thought about accessing the content remotely, and I didn’t want my work / gaming PC to be on 24/7 and exposed to the internet for power efficiency and security respectively. Having an overclocked CPU and GPU on 24/7 (even if at idle) isn’t ideal.