Proposed server build, any thoughts?

[INSERTBADNAMEHERE]

Ok heres a simple server build, what do you guys think?

 

HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 - 1TB (two of these bad boys)

 

RAM -  CRUCIAL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600

 

CASE - Corsair Carbide Series 200R

 

PSU - CORSAIR CX Builder Series Modular 430W

 

MOBO - MSI H81M-P33 - Intel H81

 

CPU - Intel Core i3-4130T

 

What do you guys think of this? Anything to weak or overkill, I am not a very experienced server dude.

So help is appreciated,

 

Thanks.

[Stefano]

You might want more hard disks for redundancy and more space.

[tp95112]

You might want more storage cause if you do frequent back ups thats going to disapear in a snap

[INSERTBADNAMEHERE]

Besides the space, is it fine overall?

[Guest]

Depends on the use case 

[Stefano]

Besides the space, is it fine overall?

 

 

Yep, but you might want to go with a higher end PSU, server suffer a lot of strain.

Also have a spare hard drive handy in case of a fail.

[alpenwasser]

What is the intended use of this server? How reliable do you need it to be?

What OS do you intend to run on it?

[INSERTBADNAMEHERE]

What is the intended use of this server? How reliable do you need it to be?

What OS do you intend to run on it?

just for data storage, the server is not for me, but i am guessing linux, and i want it to be as reliable as possible.

[WoodenMarker]

It looks fine but I'd get less and larger hdd's.

[brob]

Ok heres a simple server build, what do you guys think?

 

HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 - 1TB (two of these bad boys)

 

RAM -  CRUCIAL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600

 

CASE - Corsair Carbide Series 200R

 

PSU - CORSAIR CX Builder Series Modular 430W

 

MOBO - MSI H81M-P33 - Intel H81

 

CPU - Intel Core i3-4130T

 

What do you guys think of this? Anything to weak or overkill, I am not a very experienced server dude.

So help is appreciated,

 

Thanks.

 

The motherboard only supports 4 drives total and does not support RAID.

 

A single larger hdd would be better and less costly.

 

If running Linux, 4GB of memory would be sufficient. Even Windows would be fine with that.

[alpenwasser]

just for data storage, the server is not for me, but i am guessing linux, and i want it to be as reliable as possible.

Well in that case, unless you're intending to run ZFS (in which case: ECC memory and

a M/B and CPU that support them), I'd say you could scale back the CPU to a Pentium

and the RAM to 4 GB.

 

If you wish, you could then either go for a slightly more expensive motherboard (maybe

something with a few more SATA ports) and/or more or larger HDDs, depending on whether

or not more storage might be useful. Or you could of course just save the money.