On April 6, 2016 4:08:44 AM AST, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Can anybody comment on strategies for building a home or small office >server using entirely free hardware?
If your willing to surrender Libreboot you could run a real desktop/server. In my Vast experience anything Intel/ASUS or SulerMicro (before the UEFI plague) just stay away from onboard WiFi. By that definition I have two Libre servers in my home one on a 2011 and one 1366 well technically its a server rack but close right? >The earlier thread (here[1] and on the FSFE list[2]) about Intel and >AMD >never being truly free identifies platforms like ARM and other low >power >chips as alternatives that can be 100% free. For home and small office >servers where people typically want low power consumption and low noise >levels rather than raw performance, using ARM is probably quite >agreeable, a compromise they may already have been willing to make for >other reasons. > >Are there any particularly good examples of off-the-shelf solutions or >how to make such servers from components? > >Even if CPU power is limited, can such solutions be designed for >IO-intensive workloads, such as hosting NFS home directories or >Maildirs? These tend to do lots of small writes, just putting them on >SSDs helps a lot. > >Another thing that people tend to look for these days is the ability to >have lots of storage for photos and movies. This type of storage >doesn't need fast IO but it does generally need multiple disks for >redundancy. > >A combined solution to both of those storage problems typically needs a >pair of SSDs (for home directories) and a pair of large disks (for >media >collections) and if there is going to be a spare disk bay for >migrations >and standby disks, it means having a box with 5 or more bays. > > >1. >https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-04/msg00020.html >2. >http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-April/010912.html -- Some people have a way with word. Unfortunately in my case, Word had his way with me.
