Hi All,
I am not sure if the list is dead or not or people are just hellabusy.
In the hopes of stirring up some conversation I figured I would throw
this out there.
I am looking to deploy OwnCloud at home. Likely looking at a 2TB space
as that is more then I have needed over the last couple years & I don't
see that increasing anytime soon. I was thinking of using CentOS as the
base, more to get used to it & try to learn more of the RHEL environment.
I also see this acting as a domain controller, server, etc. for the
house & my small business. We are also trying to reduce our power
footprint as well to lower utilities as well as potentially preparing
for being off-grid & perhaps being reliant on solar or similar.
I have done some rough pricing out & it like for a system of 8 to 16 GB
of RAM; an i5 or i7 processor & a 2TB disk the price for something off
shelf or custom built is between 700 to 1000. I have looked at
desktops, laptops, mini-systems, etc.
Now as an alternative I have an old Dell OptiPlex 745 (I think) SFF
desktop with a Core 2 Duo; 2GB of RAM (currently) & a 60GB HDD. Looking
at rough prices for a few hundred (2-300'ish) I can upgrade it to a 2TB
drive & 8 GB of RAM. I do also have a powered & non-powered 2TB
external drive as well as an old DNS-323 NAS with mirrored 2 TB drives.
I am open to suggestions on if you think the OptiPlex solution is a good
one for what I am doing right now & say the next few years or if I would
be better plumping for one of the $700 to $1000 solutions. If that
route, what would be reasonable to invest in.
There....that should do it. Hopefully it will stir up some
conversation. :-)
TekBudda
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