[TriLUG] Home server recommendations

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Are you looking for the whole package, CPU and memory and case?

New, it’d be impossible to get. Used, maybe. Do you care about power consumption?

You could get an Atom system — I have one that runs Plex just fine, though I don’t think it could handle transcoding 720p content. Low-power and cheap. Probably $130 a couple years ago without hard drives, though the case I got could only fit two x 3.5”.

Getting an Atom system that supports ECC is going to be harder. The only one I’ve found is Avoton-based and $350+.

http://www.amazon.com/A1SAi-2750F-Desktop-Motherboard-Chipset-BGA-1283/dp/B00F0YROSC

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On Feb 6, 2014, at 16:49, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> TriLUG,
> 
> I am looking for a home server (tower form-factor) that I can get used for
> roughly $100-150 shipped off eBay. I plan on putting a UNIX-like OS on it
> (likely Linux or FreeBSD) and run SMB/NFS/Netatalk over a ZFS mirror. In
> addition, it would run a Plex server. The reason I am looking for a box
> like this is to provide a backup machine for my current NAS built out of an
> old Dell desktop tower. The requirements are:
> 
> 1. It should be fast enough to run things like Plex. A newer-than-2008 CPU
> would be a big plus.
> 
> 2. It should be able to support enough RAM to run ZFS. The current box
> seems to do pretty well with 4GB's.
> 
> 3. It should support large (up to 4 TB) SATA drives and have at least four
> 3.5 inch drive bays. I would likely put in two spinning drives and a cheap
> SSD boot drive to start.
> 
> 4. It should be relatively quiet and not incredibly power hungry. I realize
> that a box like this is not going to be silent, but I'd like to have
> something that's not going to keep people up at night.
> 
> The optional features I'd love are:
> 
> 1. Gigabit Ethernet and at least one free PCI or PCI-E slot for a Wi-Fi
> card.
> 
> 2. Ideally, I'd like to get something that supports ECC RAM to reduce the
> chances of data corruption.
> 
> What models do you know that would work? For example, I found some cheap
> Dell PowerEdge towers, but their spec sheets say they only support drives
> up to 500 or 750 GB's which is way too low for my requirements.
> 
> Thanks,
> Igor
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