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Morning all,
I've been trying to replace my huge, ex-gaming rig now home server tower with a purpose built home server. Obviously read a lot of these forums, but if I'm honest, I've made a couple of errors and thought I'd better ask before I make any more or waste any more money.
It is primarily, just storage for my media centre, laptop backups & personal data. At the moment, it serves just a couple of raspberry Pi's but in future, may need to serve HD\3d content to 4 Pi's. I'd like it to be a long lasting platform that I won't have to touch for years and years. It will run no applications. All of the downloading & indexing is done on a Poweredge R200 that will also run my home automation project.
Requirements:
So firstly, given my needs, is the purchase list appropriate? Is there anything that would be either a better or cheaper alternative?
Thank you!
I've been trying to replace my huge, ex-gaming rig now home server tower with a purpose built home server. Obviously read a lot of these forums, but if I'm honest, I've made a couple of errors and thought I'd better ask before I make any more or waste any more money.
It is primarily, just storage for my media centre, laptop backups & personal data. At the moment, it serves just a couple of raspberry Pi's but in future, may need to serve HD\3d content to 4 Pi's. I'd like it to be a long lasting platform that I won't have to touch for years and years. It will run no applications. All of the downloading & indexing is done on a Poweredge R200 that will also run my home automation project.
Requirements:
- Rack mountable, ideally with a number of hot-swappable disks - although I like the RSV-L4500 that 9C1 Newbee suggests. It's cheap and I don't mind rebuilding in a better case later.
- Immediate capacity for 4x4TB disks (intend to use WD Reds) - with the capacity for adding another 4 over time.
- Must have 1 disk of redundancy & ability to expand arrays at a later date. (This is all software isn't it?)
- As quiet as possible
- I bought a 4 bay Netgear NAS box. Researched it some more and realised it was naff so returned it!
- I then bought a HP DL180 G6 with a P410\512 controller which I thought would work well - but totally underestimated how massively noisy it would be - have had to return it because I couldn't sleep in the other room. Think this would work well if I had a garage place to put it!?
- Supermicro X9SRH-7F-B motherboard @ £249
- Xeon E5-2603 v2 1.8ghz quad core @ £154
- RSV-L4500 rack mount case @ £75 (Might consider a re-used SuperMicro case like this one)
- 16GB listed ram @ £135
- 4x4TB Western Digital Reds @ £129 = £516
So firstly, given my needs, is the purchase list appropriate? Is there anything that would be either a better or cheaper alternative?
Thank you!