Quiet Server for Home?

[sted]

it might depend on the raid card etc but i know i have done it in the past (and im not going to yank one to test the theory lol)

[ITGURU]

it might depend on the raid card etc but i know i have done it in the past (and im not going to yank one to test the theory lol)

 

oh go on, why not. Put the system / theory to the test ! After all isn't that what RAID 1 is for lol

[sted]

oh go on, why not. Put the system / theory to the test ! After all isn't that what RAID 1 is for lol

well yes but only if you have to lol. Im decommissioning my home microserver at some point as its old and had 1 drive fail already (boot drive so just lost os as it was the 1 non raid1 drive typically) as i intend to move my junk to onedrive i just cba to get on with it lol

[GuyJD]

I can vouch that you can put a raid 1 disk into another computer as I have a disk that kept needing to rebuild when it was in our admin server and I currently have is sat in my USB drive reader and it's perfectly readable in windows 10.

 

But I agree don't rely on raid as your only backup, get something else in place too.

[mavhc]

That's why you use software raid, I just pulled my zfs drives from one machine, put them in another, it found them all by magic/sufficiently advanced technology

[Norphy]

id argue raid 1 is at least to the point of if a drive/pc fails you have a backup granted if somewhere burns down not so much

 

No. RAID is not a backup. RAID protects against hardware failure and nothing else. It doesn't protect against software failure, accidental deletions, corruption or anything else. RAID on its own is not a backup solution.

[JoeBloggs]

I've had a few RAID 1 drives go and easily get the data off the working HDD. I have a SATA to USB and got the data off in minutes

[Mistert89]

HP micro server is good and quiet, but if you want to do 'normal PC things' on it as well, you need to factor in video card and sound.... then it's not so cheap - but I don't regret buying one. I also increased the memory, but do find the CPU struggles with anything intensive (which for me is both data and video). In addition to its storage, I have a Synology NAS in a different part of the house.

[MatthewL]

I've got a HP ProLiant Turion II N40L MicroServer and a HP ProLiant ML110 G4 or G5 cannot remember which one I have left of the two both with upgraded memory sat in my attic doing nothing! But both are very quiet when in operation.

[Guest obsidianpillar]

Gosh this thread took off! Thanks so much all!

 

Yes I should ALSO have added that it's going to run Windows (I know I know) as my gf is terminally allergic to Linux. If it were me I'd go Ubuntu and software raid it but meh.

 

Lots to look at though, thank you all! If there are any more to come though do keep them coming. :)

 

For my home lab, my main host is an HP ProLiant ML350 G6. I'm quite happy it sitting here in my Office. I'm a Music Producer also, so you can understand that it's got to be quiet for me whilst working. This fits the bill by a mile, no issues and is enough for me to work comfortably with with the obvious "hum" omitted from it, however very quiet in my case. All of my ML350s have been brilliant, including the older G5 series (no expansion cards used whilst testing the G5 series). Ensure that you only use the four fans though, as the six fans can, by nature make it louder than the four-fan version. I run with six fans, and it's still not an issue. Your call however.

 

Mine has had the rack mount conversion done to it, however you can buy the "Desktop" versions easily, and are in fact more common on sites such as eBay than the rack mount versions. They're still beasts and I have two others lying around as testbeds. You can put 64GB's of RAM in them for about £80-100.

 

Tom

[CAWJames]

Speaking of ICT Direct, I've just ordered one of their HP Z620 workstations, Xeon with a Quadro 4000 and 48GB of RAM, 120GB SSD and a 1TB HD, all for around 900(inc vat and delivery, can't remember exact price) I am going to run Server 2016 and run a windows 10 RemoteFX VM as my main desktop, and use the rest of the power for VM testing Apparently very quiet too, going to be epic Edited November 12, 2016 by CAWJames