Mac + Windows friendly home server

I’m hoping someone can help me out, I currently have a stack of external hard drives for storage and I’m looking to replace them with a home server as storage space ideally it will run with both Windows 8 and the latest Mac OX, I’ve seen a couple of guides which appear to be okay and within my technical ability ( I’ve built a PC in the past ) but I’d like to know if anyone has had any experience and could point me a a reliable up to date guide. Also I’ve currently running windows 8 on a Boot-camp partition, could I remove this and install a OS on the server and use that for windows based software instead, once again any help would be great.
Cheers Nick
Answer #1
What exactly are you trying to achieve here? A server with two OS’s installed – what, why!? Where are you going with this? What guides are you reading?
If you’re just looking to make your hard drives available over the network, I’d recommend you get a NAS enclosure. We used to have a home server running Windows, and it was quite nice but complete overkill and not worth the extra cost! Really, I’d say servers are only really needed in cooperate environments where they store user accounts and software information, etc. Trust me, a NAS drive is so much easier, simpler and reliable for home use. And we just use an old PC that’s on all the time to serve the Apple TV with the media on the NAS drive.