On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Serge van Ginderachter wrote:
On 5 March 2010 23:21, M. Milanuk <[email protected]> wrote: 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. Any experience or comments on the matter? For a home server, you might want to take the power consumption into consideration, especially if you plan to keep that box running all day long.
for a couple of small office environments i bought and installed cheap atom desktops and equipped them with a tb drive for storage. running ubuntu_lts-server the result is a small and economic backup- and even intranetmachine which consumes less than 50 w. maybe you should consider that as an option.
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