Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-12 Thread Fleur
Hi All, very interesting thread, I add my 2 cents point-of-view for free to all of you ... A lot af satisfaction with HP Proliant MicroServer from the first GEN6 (AMD NEON) to the 1-year old MicroServer Gen10 X3216 (CentOS6/7/8) so I think yours is the right choice! In /boot/efi/ (mounted from

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Simon Matter said: > Are you sure that's still true? I've done it that way in the past but it > seems at least with EL8 you can put /boot/efi on md raid1 with metadata > format 1.0. That way the EFI firmware will see it as two independent FAT > filesystems. Only thing you have

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-06 Thread Simon Matter
> At Fri, 6 Jan 2023 08:39:22 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> > I have found a: >> > >> > HPE 873830-S01 ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 >> > >> > for <$300 without drives.'?''?''?'? If I can believe the seller, it >> has a AMD >> > Opteron X3216 Dual-core (2 Core) 1.6GHz and 8GB

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well I just ordered a Proliant gen10+ microserver, as the gen10 of for 1/2 the price was the $0.59 hamburger (we ad it, but you can't order it). I also ordered 4 Seagate 4T terascale drives (seems nothing smaller around). So in some 2 weeks I will have it all together and will see what happens

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 6 Jan 2023 08:39:22 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi > > > I have found a: > > > > HPE 873830-S01 ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 > > > > for <$300 without drives.  If I can believe the seller, it has a AMD > > Opteron X3216 Dual-core (2 Core) 1.6GHz and 8GB Installed. > > > > It

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-05 Thread Simon Matter
Hi > I have found a: > > HPE 873830-S01 ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 > > for <$300 without drives.  If I can believe the seller, it has a AMD > Opteron X3216 Dual-core (2 Core) 1.6GHz and 8GB Installed. > > It has 4 3.5" bays. and 1? "Media" bay? > > https://www.servertechsupply.com/873830-s01/ > >

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have found a: HPE 873830-S01 ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 for <$300 without drives.  If I can believe the seller, it has a AMD Opteron X3216 Dual-core (2 Core) 1.6GHz and 8GB Installed. It has 4 3.5" bays. and 1? "Media" bay? https://www.servertechsupply.com/873830-s01/ this could well be

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-05 Thread Michael Schumacher
Robert, > I have a few hardkernels and I was the one that got Centos-arm working on > them and booting completely off the HD. > Problem comes back to it is ARM. > I have their Odroid HC4 for doing RAID, but could not get any Linux but > theirs installed. The HC4 should be running with

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Proliant gen8 does NOT have UEFI. So I think this means I better move up to the gen10... On 1/4/23 09:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: After a lot of hours searching, here is what I am coming to 3.5" 2-bay standard built just does not exist these days.  Pretty much everything is at least

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a few hardkernels and I was the one that got Centos-arm working on them and booting completely off the HD. Problem comes back to it is ARM. I have their Odroid HC4 for doing RAID, but could not get any Linux but theirs installed. It is sitting on my desk, unused. And as I mentioned,

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-05 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hallo Kenneth, ... > That has 2x 2.5 Gbps ports, which would be nice for a simple home router. Is > there a 3x or 4x 1 Gbps version? I was considering a Firewalla with 4x 2.5 > Gbps ports, as I have two ISPs for redundancy. (One is 1 Gbps symmetric.) But > they're about 2.5x that price.

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-05 Thread Anthony K
On 4/1/23 09:22, Robert Moskowitz wrote: And I am just coming up empty on my searches. My search foo has been really off, it seems. It's not just you.  I was recently searching on Google and I couldn't find what I was looking for.  I kept getting that annoying blue fishing monster.  I then

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, January 04, 2023 7:47 PM +0100 Michael Schumacher wrote: my old home server needed to much energy (~80VA) permanently, so I went for an https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/ The manufacturer is located in Korea and has dealers around the world. Put it in one of their

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-04 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi Robert, my old home server needed to much energy (~80VA) permanently, so I went for an https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/ The manufacturer is located in Korea and has dealers around the world. Put it in one of their cases https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-case-type-1/

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
After a lot of hours searching, here is what I am coming to 3.5" 2-bay standard built just does not exist these days.  Pretty much everything is at least 4-bay. the HP Proliant gen8 looks like a good deal, and only use 2 bays. Some models have RAID1. 9x9x10 case, not too bad. The 1U

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have reached the age where I don't want to put together my own hardware. Plus iRedMail says no support for ARM. I have LOTs of ARM boards here and have been working with them for over 10 years http://medon.htt-consult.com/images/cubietower-3.JPG But I need stuff that someone else can

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 03, 2023, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >Well what I am finding looks like it will be in the +80W range and I am >trying to use less electricity.  I would put up with 40W, including drives. You might want to consider a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM and a case that will support a couple of

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Christopher Wensink
Look at mitxpc.com or search for mini itx barbones PC's on tigerdirect or newegg or amazon, there are a lot of choices. Perhaps this would work: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmeet-b660w-b-bb-box-us/p/N82E16856158084 (must add cpu, ram, drives) On 1/3/2023 4:42 PM, Robert Heller wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
OK I am seeing claims that the Proliant Gen8 is 25 - 40W. More digging. On 1/3/23 17:51, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well what I am finding looks like it will be in the +80W range and I am trying to use less electricity.  I would put up with 40W, including drives. ITX board most likely? And

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well what I am finding looks like it will be in the +80W range and I am trying to use less electricity.  I would put up with 40W, including drives. ITX board most likely? And will I end up needing 3 drives or does mirroring the OS partition work. On 1/3/23 17:42, Joshua Kramer wrote: Look at

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Robert Heller
Just search for a 2-disk 1U x86_64 (Intel or AMD) system that has room for 2 SATA drives (probably a pair 2.5" SSDs). Don't bother to search for RAID. Probably something like these: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb=1u+server+=shopping=shopping At Tue, 3 Jan 2023 17:22:13 -0500 Robert Moskowitz

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Joshua Kramer
Look at HP Microserver line... it's as close as you're going to get. On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 5:22 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > And I am just coming up empty on my searches. > > My search foo has been really off, it seems. > > On 1/3/23 17:13, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Tue, 3 Jan 2023 16:55:40

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
And I am just coming up empty on my searches. My search foo has been really off, it seems. On 1/3/23 17:13, Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 3 Jan 2023 16:55:40 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Help? I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that: Has RAID1 internal (not an

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
It will go into my rack cabinet so I COULD do a 1U format. I would prefer something sitting on a shelf in the rack (next to my QNAP NAS) about the size to handle 2 HD and system board. Enough memory for Centos and the mail server software.  Perhaps 2Gb is enough?  4Gb nice to have

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 3 Jan 2023 16:55:40 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Help? > > I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that: > > Has RAID1 internal (not an external USB RAID thing) >     Can be software or hardware All modern Linux kernels include software RAID

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-03 Thread Christopher Wensink
It depends on the structure of the drives.  Do you want a dedicated controller card or is an embedded card on the motherboard acceptable? Entry Level Dell Poweredge T150 servers could work, or build your own rig with an SLI MegaRAID or HighPoint RocketRAID dedicated controller card. There