Dan Langille wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a
concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a
concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost,
pretty much rules out a commercial case, such as a 3U case. It would be
nice, but it greatly inflates the budget. This pretty much restricts me
to a tower case.
The primary use of this machine will be a backup server[1]. It will do
other secondary use will include minor tasks such as samba, CIFS, cvsup,
etc.
It depends on your needs (storage capacity [number of drives],
performance etc.)
One year ago I purchased HP ProLiant ML110G5 / P2160 / 1GB / 250GB SATA
/ DVDRW / Tower / (with 3 years Next Business Day support!). It is sold
for about 9000,- CZK ($500), I added next 4GB of RAM, 4x 1TB Samsung F1
instead of original 250GB Seagate. System is booted from 2GB internal
USB flash drive and all drives are in RAIDZ pool.
The machine is really quiet.
All in all cost is about $1000 with 3 years NBD.
You can put in 2TB drives instead of 1TB drives.
It is really low end machine, but runs without problems for more than a
year.
Miroslav Lachman
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