Hello All, I have done a fair amount of hobbyist work over the years with Red hat and SUSE running on very old PC hardware. I have one server that is an old Pentium II, for example.
I'd like to consolidate some of these old linux boxes (which have a collection of cobbled together 80G drives, for example) into one relatively modern, power efficient, server which can run slimserver and be a general file server for the rest of the house. I have my MP3 files currently on two locations, on a desktop PC and the server PC. That way, if either PC dies I still have the mp3s. I could, of course, re-rip all the CDs I own - but that's a time consuming process I'd rather avoid. On the new server I plan to do Linux software raid. Maybe RAID 5, or possibly, RAID10 (perhaps using 4 new disk drives). BTW, I don't plan to delete the mp3s from my desktop PC. So once I get the new server setup I'll still have mp3s on both the desktop and the server - it's just that I'm hoping the server will survive farther into the future if it is RAID. Could anyone recommend a barebones server hardware, to which one could add 4 disk drive, memory and CPU. I'm not looking for the absolute cheapest solution - in fact, I'd like a system with a power efficient power supply, power efficient hard drives - and since I may store video on the server as well as other stuff gigabit ethernet. I don't care about video or audio on the server - it will run in my home "wiring closet" with no montior, keyboard or mouse. I'm thinking about using Ubuntu since that seems to be popular these days and sounds like it works well with slimserver. Any hardware advice, tips, pointers to other info much apprec. Thanks, Kevin -- kkitts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43916 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
