2 Mar
2023
2 Mar
'23
12:55 p.m.
Hello,
On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 11:47:45AM +0000, Alan Pope via BitFolk Users wrote:
I did pick up an HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 with a
"Intel(R) Celeron(R)
CPU G1610T @ 2.30GHz" CPU and 16GB RAM from eBay a while back as a general
purpose home server. It's perhaps unsurprisingly way better / faster than
the old N40/N54 Microservers of yore.
Mine is an N36L with an AMD Athlon II Neo at max 1.3GHz!
Anything with a better CPU would be an improvement. I have a disk
chassis attached by eSATA that I'd like to keep using though, so any
replacement either has to have eSATA (rare) or a PCIe slot for an
eSATA card.
So requirements are:
- Cheap
- Fairly low power
- Fairly quiet (quiet fan is okay)
- Room for a low profile PCIe card
- At least 16G RAM
- At least two mass storage slots, which can be 2.5" SATA, 3.5"
SATA, NVMe, or a mixture. Not USB or SD card or the like.
Nice to have:
- Storage slots to be hot swappable
So if anyone has any tips for good deals at the moment I'd be
interested.
By the way this machine's four internal HDDs first had Debian 3.0
woody installed on it in 2004. It has been constantly upgraded in
place since then, and seen several different entirely new iterations
of hardware around it. It's now Debian 10 buster. But it no longer
makes sense to run it off of 4 SATA HDDs so probably its next
incarnation will be on two SSDs, which may benefit from a complete
new install.
Cheers,
Andy
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