Le Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:21:40 -0800, "M. Milanuk" <[email protected]> a écrit : > Recently my little home server (Asus bare-bones kit PC that I bought > used a year + back, Sempron 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 13.7GB HD + two 500GB SATA > drives, CD/DVD-ROM) took a dump. It's in the local PC shop, but I fear > the MB may be done for. As such... I'm considering options. One may be > if the shop has or can get for a reasonable price replacement parts. If > not, I may be shopping CraigsList for another old mid-tower PC again. > > In the past (6-8yrs ago) I had pretty good luck with some Dell > refurbished workstations... so I started wondering if maybe their > refurbished low-end servers might be a better idea than a > run-of-the-mill desktop PC pressed into server duty. Given that the > load is extremely *low* (primarily backup file storage server for 2-4 > people) in this situation, I'm more just interested in the hardware > lasting a good long while without having replace parts and/or the > computer for the forseeable future.
Hi, Depending of your budget but if if you are hesitating between a PC and a real old server, your budget is somewhat limited what I totally understand. Real servers are very nice : ECC memory, fast and reliable SCSI or SAS HD with a real RAID card with fast read/write cache, 2 power supply, sometimes iLO for remote management... but they are so noisy and rack-able which, if you don't have a dedicated rack, could be problematic to store correctly. Since you have 2 500GB drives and most of the decent servers only use SCSI and/or SAS, you will be not able to connect them inside (maybe on a very-low range server such as Fujitsu Siemens RX100 and HP Proliant DL1*...) You should look for, at least, a server with 4 300Go SCSI disks who will provide you 900GB online under RAID5... CU -- LMJ "May the source be with you my young padawan" http://sites.google.com/site/imatruelinuxmasterjedi/ -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
