[Chester LUG] Slightly OT: perfect little machine for a low(ish) power Linux server

[Sebastian Arcus]

Thanks Les. That's helpful advice.



On 13/03/12 11:20, Les Pritchard wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> I also bought one of these and upgraded it to 8gb (max RAM). The build
> quality is pretty good, they do feel like a HP device. As Stuart said,
> this box would work well for a NAS with FreeNAS or Nexenta on it. It
> has 4 drive bays so you could make a really nice small storage box
> with the OS on a USB stick. The CPU isn't up to doing SAN/iSCSI type
> work so I'd avoid that.
>
> I'm currently using the box with VMWare. I've moved a small collection
> of low CPU use VMs to it and they work fine.
>
> The box is pretty quiet, so if anyone needs a box to sit in the corner
> of their house it won't drive you crazy!
>
> Les
>
> On 13 March 2012 10:56, Sebastian Arcus<shop at open-t.co.uk>  wrote:
>> Hi Stuart,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your experience. I run a number servers made of old
>> 500MHz-1.5GHz processors at several small businesses (up to 15 workstations
>> per server) - doing imap and smtp email, samba file sharing, openvpn and
>> even Asterisk for VoIP. I find that cpu load is not an issue. I usually use
>> RAID-1 in software - and again, doesn't seem to generate much load.
>>
>> I'm interested if you hit any other downsides when working with this system.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/03/12 09:42, Stuart Burns wrote:
>>>
>>> I bought one of these the other day. I shoved an extra NIC in it along
>>> with 8 GB RAM. They are ok for small little boxes but if you plan to do
>>> anything that requires any moderate grunt, it's a not really up to it.
>>>
>>> Having said that, if you want low power and lots of space they are
>>> fine.  Just remember you will have to do RAID in software (Unless you
>>> want to spend a few hundred on a P410 or similar)
>>>   and computing the parity across a couple of RAID 5 disks sets
>>> underneath ISCSI was a killer.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13 March 2012 00:12, Sebastian Arcus<shop at open-t.co.uk
>>> <mailto:shop at open-t.co.uk>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>     I remember there being some talk at Liverpool LUG about a suitable
>>>     machine for a low power home server. If anybody here is considering
>>>     building a Linux server for either home or a small business, HP has
>>>     this Proliant Microserver at only £159 (after cahsback). This
>>>     includes a 250GB hard-disk and 2GB ECC memory!
>>>
>>>
>>>   http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-__hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-__microserver-100-cashback-__658553-421
>>>
>>>
>>>   <http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-microserver-100-cashback-658553-421>
>>>
>>>     It seems to me this would make a cracking Linux server for home or a
>>>     small business. I'm not entirely sure why is it so cheap - specially
>>>     as it has a server grade mobo and RAM. Too bad I'm not about to
>>>     build any server for clients at the moment - I'm almost tempted to
>>>     buy one and keep it just in case.
>>>
>>>     No affiliation with HP or Ebuyer - I just thought somebody might
>>>     benefit from the heads up.
>>>
>>>     Sebastian
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