[Gllug] Something better: was Re: OT: Warning - new WD portable drives!

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:51:04PM +0100, j.roberts wrote:
> Just to mention for those who have not noticed this, for anyone who  
> wants something a bit better than an external USB caddy or NAS, but at a  
> similar price, HP have extended (yet again!) their UK offer on the  
> micro-server:
>
> http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo/proliantmicroserver/index.html
>
> Various colleagues have bought these, and we have bought a few for  
> ourselves. Not bad, great value, proper server hardware (albeit low  
> end), will even support several lightly-loaded VMs. Runs Debian,  
> Proxmox, Ubuntu server, RedHat/CentOS, I have not tried BSDs.

They're very good, and well worth even full price:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/new-file-server-part-2/

Mine is running RHEL 6.1.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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