penfold1992
Cadet
- Joined
- Dec 8, 2014
- Messages
- 7
Hello all,
so a bit of an introduction, I am a noob to servers and networking really, I have never had much success with networking as a whole however I have plenty of experience with Windows computing and beginning to become interested in what Linux has to offer.
Purpose:
so I followed the Hardware Recommendations thread and taken advice and here is a proposal build with some comments:
Build:
Thoughts:
so a bit of an introduction, I am a noob to servers and networking really, I have never had much success with networking as a whole however I have plenty of experience with Windows computing and beginning to become interested in what Linux has to offer.
Purpose:
- Networked storage for multiple access to videos and audio files (playlists on mediamonkey or foobar etc)
- connection to Sonos devices (Soundbar and Play speaker)
- potentially run a small database (for educational purposes)
so I followed the Hardware Recommendations thread and taken advice and here is a proposal build with some comments:
Build:
- Case: Node 304 - £72
- Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F - £175
- Processor: Intel Core i3 3240 - £85
- RAM: Crucial CT102472BD160B 8GB DDR3 - £65 (x2)
- PSU: Corsair CP-9020075-UK CS450M 450W - £53
- Hard-drives: Western Digital 3TB WD30EZRX - £80 (x3)
- USB: SanDisk Cruzer U 32GB Flash drive (already own)
Thoughts:
- The case appears to be nice, but more expensive than cases I would normally buy. I would be looking at a cheaper option potentially around the £50 mark or slightly less however the case seems ok.
- I am not sure why the price of the motherboard is so expensive however I am hoping I can get a cheaper motherboard for my solution. This cost does not appear to reflect the cost of other parts of the build and when looking around this forum the buzzword "MORE MEMORY" appears to be thrown around much more than "expensive motherboard" and considering the RAM appears to be much cheaper than the motherboard, I was wondering if there is a better solution.
- I am hoping this RAM is ok. It is on the cheaper side however its not the lowest end I found and its by memory that I have had good dealings with before.
- I am not sure how well that PSU performs and if 450 would just be too low however one bonus was that it is part modular. Another option I found was the be quiet! 500W Straight Power which comes with a bit more power but is not modular at all.
- The hard-drives are a concern, I would be looking at 3 of them to go for a striped/mirror array getting 6TB of usable storage and 3TB of redundancy. I know that 6TB seems small however this is my first server setup so I cautious about going large and failing at the first hurdle here. An option for expansion would be to buy 3 larger HDD's and add them into a second vdev to increase storage size later on.