If you don't need horsepower, then the Sepron, and Duron line from AMD, and the Celerons, and older Pentium 4's from Intel won't run you much.
It's easy to find motherboards with everything you need onboard... for cheap. I'd suggest one with a four channel SATA controller. That way you can build a cheap RAID 5 using Linux.
Check out http://www.newegg.com if you haven't already.
- Sebastian
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Mark C. Ballew wrote:
Watch out! Dell PERC4 (or was it 3?) on-board cards store the RAID info on the disk and not the card.
Mark
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 11:20 -0700, Garrett P. Taylor wrote:The best Reno has to offer is sort of "hobby shop" style stores. They can get more advanced hardware like RAID cards, but you can probably get a cheaper entry-level server from Dell or something and that will come with a warranty.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Johnson Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [RLUG] inexpensive server hardware in town?
Hi.
I'm looking for something to replace my desktop machine as the home office server. inexpensive is a key attribute. small would be nice. hardware raid that works well under Linux for *recoverability* (as opposed to increased speed). 'shutdown -h now' should result in an actual power down. after a power failure (when power is restored) it would be nice if machine powered up as well. maybe some kind of wake-on-lan functionality would be nice, if folks want it to sleep through long periods of inactivity.
It'll be running samba and mysql, and I'm sure apache and postfix as well... and a some kind of IPSec tunnel. the mail will be pre-filtered... apache will be for internal use only... etc.. basically, I don't need much horse power.
are there a places in town you'd recommend for providing inexpensive (though reliable) machines like this?
- Ben
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