[Tfug] Server purchase (!)

[Brian Masur]

If you aren't concerned about speed or ram, then I think the only guiding 
factor on how cheap you can go is how much space you need.  So, the majority 
of your cost should be in hard drives.  How much hard drive space do you 
need?  I have a cheap P2-266 MHz that should take up to 384 MB  SDRAM.  You 
could get a decent SATA (raid?) controller, 4-port, and four small SATA 
drives, and it should be rock-solid.

I'm seeing a 4-port SATA raid controller for $26, and Seagate ST3808110AS 
80GB SATA 3.0Gb/s drives for $55 each, free shipping, and 5-year warranty.  
You can get those drivers cheaper with only a 1-year warranty, around $42 
from what I'm seeing.

>From: rubinson at u.arizona.edu (Claude Rubinson)
>Reply-To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>To: TFUG <tfug at tfug.org>
>Subject: [Tfug] Server purchase
>Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:31:12 -0700
>
>I'm looking to order a file server and am looking for recommendations
>for vendors.  Primarily, I'm looking for good customer service,
>someone who has experience building machines that will be running
>Linux, and will be willing to work with me even though I'm a grad
>student who's looking to keep costs relatively low.  (For what it's
>worth, the server will primarily be acting as a remote backup, so I'm
>looking for good drive reliability---I'll be running software
>raid5---but don't care about speed and RAM, which is where I'll be
>looking to cut costs.)
>
>Thanks!
>
>Claude
>
>
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