Server / storage advice

dirtymonkey29 · Post by **dirtymonkey29** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:03 pm

That's the deal I'm going for sp3ctre, can hopefully sell my nas on

Post by **sp3ctre** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:21 pm

[quote="dirtymonkey29"]
That's the deal I'm going for sp3ctre, can hopefully sell my nas on
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LOL, nice one... I bought 2... have unraid on one and ESXi in the other

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:27 pm

What OS are you putting on that one?

Post by **sp3ctre** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:52 pm

[quote="pvr"]
What OS are you putting on that one?
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Which one, the ESXi? Currently have :

Ubuntu
Win 8 Server
Openfiler
pfsense

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:59 pm

Very good pricing though for that lot.

My office tower could do with replacement as it is just too noisy. Wonder what performance would be like on those HP jobs with Win7 on it.

Post by **sp3ctre** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:06 pm

[quote="pvr"]
Very good pricing though for that lot.

My office tower could do with replacement as it is just too noisy. Wonder what performance would be like on those HP jobs with Win7 on it.
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They are supposed to be servers really... no proper graphic (VGA only) and no sound card for starters... some people stick a half height graphics card in though so I guess it could work.

dirtymonkey29 · Post by **dirtymonkey29** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:08 pm

Got a couple of poweredge 2900 too

Post by **sp3ctre** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:14 pm

[quote="dirtymonkey29"]
Got a couple of poweredge 2900 too
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One of the reasons for the 40L is it uses naff all electricity, so for a home server it's pretty good. Not familiar with the poweredge 2900 though

dirtymonkey29 · Post by **dirtymonkey29** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:44 pm

Like a big tower, 2x 2ghz xenon quad cores redundant power supplies, drac cards and lots of ram.

petert · Post by **petert** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:47 pm

I have a synology 411j with four 2TB drives in RAID5. Gives me around 6TB of storage and the device is very flexible. Was A listed on PC Pro for a long while...
Peter T

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