Depends how much RAM you need. Something like a HP Proliant Microserver will be low power/cool/quiet. Has 4 drive bays, but max of 8 GB of RAM.
Otherwise, if you need more RAM, then a low end server from HP/Dell/etc would be best IMHO. If you want to buy a regular PC, but keep this thing on 24x7, then get a decent case, with fans etc. designed for 24x7 usage. Cheers Ken From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 8:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: recommendations on home server So it sounds like a regular pc built up with good amount of ram and multiple spindles will do the trick with a dual core i5 or i7? From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: recommendations on home server Your experience will be *way* better though with multiple spindles. I use 4x1T SATA RAID10 in my VM hosts and it works great. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: recommendations on home server Funny. For what I presume his purposes are (home lab, learning, testing, etc.), I would recommend a bunch of RAM and to not worry too much about disk I/O, RAID or CPU power. A regular PC with 12GB or 16GB RAM, an i5 or i7 CPU, and a decent SATA hard drive ought to do nicely for mucking about with the new toys from Microsoft. Also, why limit yourself to ESXi. Hyper-V server is free and works great on a large variety of hardware. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Not to be the bearer of bad news, but raid/lots of power/low wattage and for 500 to 1000? I'd say not a chance. Any decent raid card (by decent I mean has a BBWC) will easily be in the 1000.00 range alone. In my opinion most setups I see are disc io bound, so if you can put money in mostly one place, thats where. ________________________________ From: Jimmy Tran [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: recommendations on home server I’m in need of a decent home server to run ESX-I to run SBS, W7 and some other test VM’s. My budget is preferably around $500-$1k. Looking for lots of processing power but low powered (if possible), RAID on the drives, decent amount of ram. Don’t know where to start….can someone recommend something? Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
