Having been a Dell guy most my life, im digging these HP DL360 gen6 machines. Basically the same as an R610 as far as performance, but amazingly VERY quiet if you give them some breathing room. I just built a standalone RD machine with one of the 6 I have for some experimental work, and am very happy with the performance.
Quad core xeon, 18Gb ram, I added 4 146Gb 2.5 inch sas drives running in RAID 0+1. Dual power supplies, dual onboard gig NIC. Only has PCIe, no PCI slots, so Axia or a newer ASI card (or in my instance USB interface) for audio solutions. But from cold boot to usable audio is under 2 minutes (server class stuff has a very long POST). They can be had on ebay for about the same price as the R610, often times about 50 bucks less. On May 19, 2017 12:51 PM, "Kirk Harnack" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear braintrust, > > Please direct me elsewhere if this has been discussed and answered > already; I'm new to this list. > > I'm currently running 5 radio stations, using Rivendell in a server/client > setup. The client machines (running rdAirPlay) are some refurbished Dell > Optiplex PCs. They're now almost 3 years older than when we put them > online in this role. No serious issues yet, but I feel they're getting old > and they're perhaps a bit underpowered. > > I'm considering going in one of two directions. > > 1. Using refurbished Dell R610 server-grade hardware. Nice-looking ones > are about $200 on ebay, with all the rack-mount hardware. They sport dual > power supplies. They come with one hard drive of 146 GB. I could add a 2nd > and RAID them. They're very noisy, but they'll go in a rack room. Hard to > imagine the noise of 5 of them, however. > > 2. Go with an Intel NUC-style platform. No fans. Likely enough > horsepower. Cost more (as they're new, not refurb); indeed, the ones I seem > to need are about $500 each. I would need to get NUCs that have 2 NICs, as > we use an Axia network in addition to our Rivendell network - and we keep > them separate. Perhaps someone could point me to a known-good model that > costs closer to $200 or $300? > > I like the robustness of the Dell R610's, they're easy availability, and > the likelihood of parts availability for some time. I do not like the size > and noise. > > I like the NUC-style machines for their low power consumption, quietness, > and that they'd be new. > > As the role for these is simply to run rdAirPlay, grabbing files over the > network from the rdServer, seems the hard drive doesn't need to be large. > > > Thoughts? > > Thanks! > > Kirk > > > > > -- > Kirk A. Harnack, CBRE, CBNE > [email protected] > > http://twitter.com/kharnack > https://www.facebook.com/kharnack > http://www.youtube.com/kharnack > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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