good mobo and cpu for home server?

[Eduard the weeb]

Needs to support NVM and Optane also please have them together under 500 dollars.

[Walt]

What are you planning to do with a 500 dollar cpu and mobo on this "home" server 

[Eduard the weeb]

Just now, Walt said:

What are you planning to do with a 500 dollar cpu and mobo on this "home" server 

store my 90 tbs of hentai  ,But seriously My mom and dad are both self own there own business and they always are complaining about not being able to hold everything for there work , I said 500 USD because I don't know much about servers and I don't want them to hire some else and learning from LTT would lead to over kill due to there Over kill nature. 

[geo3]

1 hour ago, Eduard the weeb said:

 My mom and dad are both self own there own business and they always are complaining about not being able to hold everything for there work

If you're just using it as a file server $500 is overkill.

[friedbun]

Theoretically, if you can live without NVMe you could go for a HP Microserver, they fit 4 HDs in the bays at the front, if you find a compatible raid you can get decent throughput on them and most of them go for under 500$ now on ebay. They are ESXi certified so you can run VMWare on them and be happy as a peach, have filesharing, directory services, print services etc. For a small business this should be perfectly fine.

[Jarsky]

If its for business files, then id just go for a robust Synology NAS with a few 6TB disks in there. 

By the time you buy all the other parts, you could have bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS1817-8GB-Station-Diskless/dp/B06Y4TJL54/

 

Also why NVMe and Optane? 

Optane doesnt accelerate arrays - and NVMe is a waste in a home storage server.....

[paddy-stone]

20 hours ago, friedbun said:

Theoretically, if you can live without NVMe you could go for a HP Microserver, they fit 4 HDs in the bays at the front, if you find a compatible raid you can get decent throughput on them and most of them go for under 500$ now on ebay. They are ESXi certified so you can run VMWare on them and be happy as a peach, have filesharing, directory services, print services etc. For a small business this should be perfectly fine.

^This. I bought one a few years back that I still own and is now my backup server as I built a new one a little while back. It only cost around £100 after cashback from HP(promotion they had), and added another 4GB ECC RAM module is all, then just have to buy the HDDs for it. As mentioned elsewhere it's ESXi capable, but I just ran freenas on it for a long time, and was rock stable. Small size, good connection options (2 Gig NICs + iLo NIC), and has an internal USB port for running the OS on if you decided to go ESXi/freenas or whatever. The model I am saying about is the HP proliant microserver gen 8, it will handle file serving with ease and is very unobtrusive.

[friedbun]

On 10/17/2017 at 11:59 PM, paddy-stone said:

^This.

Thanks Paddy, 

 

On 10/17/2017 at 11:59 PM, paddy-stone said:

(2 Gig NICs + iLo NIC),

Let the buyer beware however that this is not the case anymore for the Gen10. Reportedly, these do not come with an iLO anymore.

 

For those here who don't know what that is:

 

integrated Lights Out is a remote management system that can run next to the actual system and is able to remotely powerup/down a system and a slew of other things. For the beefier systems such as DL360 DL380 DL580 and so forth (any Rack mounted ProLiant, basically) you are able to remote boot from an ISO on your system mounted through the iLO system and install windows or troubleshoot hardware problems or recover crashed systems for instance.

 

If you do want to have the convenience of letting your microserver collect dust in a cubby while still being able to manage it remotely this is a massive bonus. If you are okay with the missing remote management capabillity OOTB feel free to explor Gen10s. But don't come back and say you weren't warned about this later down the line

 

[paddy-stone]

1 hour ago, friedbun said:

Thanks Paddy, 

 

Let the buyer beware however that this is not the case anymore for the Gen10. Reportedly, these do not come with an iLO anymore.

 

For those here who don't know what that is:

 

integrated Lights Out is a remote management system that can run next to the actual system and is able to remotely powerup/down a system and a slew of other things. For the beefier systems such as DL360 DL380 DL580 and so forth (any Rack mounted ProLiant, basically) you are able to remote boot from an ISO on your system mounted through the iLO system and install windows or troubleshoot hardware problems or recover crashed systems for instance.

 

If you do want to have the convenience of letting your microserver collect dust in a cubby while still being able to manage it remotely this is a massive bonus. If you are okay with the missing remote management capabillity OOTB feel free to explor Gen10s. But don't come back and say you weren't warned about this later down the line

 

Yes, the gen 8 as I mentioned has the ILo, but the gen10 doesn't... to be fair you need a subscription IIRC to use the iLo, so whether that would be worth it to some or not is debateable. It IS annoying for me to have to get my other monitor down to do some maintenance occasionally, as I don't have d-sub connection on my ultrawide monitor... but that is VERY occasional indeed. Pretty much once you're set up with the microserver and running a hypervisor such as ESXi then you can still use a webGUI or the vsphere client to manage stuff. Or if you're running freenas directly on it too, you can do everything on the webGUI, except install it, which you will need a VGA monitor and mouse/keyboard to do the setup, but that;s like 5-10 mins tops...then everything else is done via the webGUI once you have an IP address to connect to.

Sounds much harder than it is BTW... it's very straight forward and they are brilliant little servers for the money. Only reason I upgraded to a custom built is because I needed more power for transcoding for plex.