Home LAN server: old PC hardware vs. refurb. server

[L.M.J]

Le Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:21:40 -0800,
"M. Milanuk" <memilanuk at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Recently my little home server (Asus bare-bones kit PC that I bought
> used a year + back, Sempron 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 13.7GB HD + two 500GB SATA
> drives, CD/DVD-ROM) took a dump.  It's in the local PC shop, but I fear
> the MB may be done for.  As such... I'm considering options.  One may be
> if the shop has or can get for a reasonable price replacement parts.  If
> not, I may be shopping CraigsList for another old mid-tower PC again.
> 
> In the past (6-8yrs ago) I had pretty good luck with some Dell
> refurbished workstations... so I started wondering if maybe their
> refurbished low-end servers might be a better idea than a
> run-of-the-mill desktop PC pressed into server duty.  Given that the
> load is extremely *low* (primarily backup file storage server for 2-4
> people) in this situation, I'm more just interested in the hardware
> lasting a good long while without having replace parts and/or the
> computer for the forseeable future.

Hi,

  Depending of your budget but if if you are hesitating between a PC and a real old server, your budget is
  somewhat limited what I totally understand.
  Real servers are very nice : ECC memory, fast and reliable SCSI or SAS HD with a real RAID card with
  fast read/write cache, 2 power supply, sometimes iLO for remote management... but they are so noisy and
  rack-able which, if you don't have a dedicated rack, could be problematic to store correctly.
  Since you have 2 500GB drives and most of the decent servers only use SCSI and/or SAS, you will be not able
  to connect them inside (maybe on a very-low range server such as Fujitsu Siemens RX100 and HP Proliant
  DL1*...)
  You should look for, at least, a server with 4 300Go SCSI disks who will provide you 900GB online under
  RAID5...

  CU 

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