I'm building an office server

[mantasdi]

Hello!

 

I'll be building an office server and it would be amazing if you, guys, could help me out with the hardware choices which I'm not sure of. 

 

First purpose:
We have 1TB of data and growing. Mostly pictures. I want to put in 2x2TB HDD drives and connect them with RAID1 on top of a ZFS filesystem for better data security. The system itself will be stored on an SSD 128-512GB drive. I want to have a possibility to scale the amount of data drives in the future if we get more data or decide to use RAID10.

 

The second purpose of the server - it will hold a nodeJS WEB application with mongoDB(20Gb of data) that will be used by 6 people at once at most.

 

I believe it would be a good thing if the motherboard would have 1Gbit/s LAN adapter.

 

Please, provide me with any recommendations for motherboards, CPUs, power supplies or anything else you see worth mentioning. I'd like to keep the overall build budget below 2000€, but any offers are interesting anyway.

Thank you!

[GDRRiley]

this screams little 4 or 5 bay nas with a quad core cpu and 8 or 16gb of ram.

 

AS5304T

 

for 2k you've got lots of options.

you could build a 4U server based around a 24 or 36 drive case with a ASROCK rack X470D4U2-2T or X470D4U. a 2600 or 2700, 32gb of ECC ram. Start with 6 NAS or server drives.

 

buy a barebones server, asrock and gigabyte along with a few other brands have some her that you could have running for 2k.

[mantasdi]

16 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

this screams little 4 or 5 bay nas with a quad core cpu and 8 or 16gb of ram.

 

AS5304T

 

for 2k you've got lots of options.

you could build a 4U server based around a 24 or 36 drive case with a ASROCK rack X470D4U2-2T or X470D4U. a 2600 or 2700, 32gb of ECC ram. Start with 6 NAS or server drives.

 

buy a barebones server, asrock and gigabyte along with a few other brands have some her that you could have running for 2k.

Thank you! AS5304T sounds like a really nice option to me, but from the reviews I can see that it comes with some kind of OS/control system already. Would I be able to install Debian on it without loosing the functionality of some parts of the hardware?

[GDRRiley]

11 minutes ago, mantasdi said:

Thank you! AS5304T sounds like a really nice option to me, but from the reviews I can see that it comes with some kind of OS/control system already. Would I be able to install Debian on it without loosing the functionality of some parts of the hardware?

You could but read up a little more on the software. I think you should be able to do everything you want on this box. 
 

if it can’t you could but idk what you would lose 

[mantasdi]

You were really helpful, @GDRRiley, thank you very much for the time dedicated!

[GDRRiley]

7 hours ago, mantasdi said:

You were really helpful, @GDRRiley, thank you very much for the time dedicated!

welcome.

[beersykins]

I'd personally just pick up a second hand 'actual server' for that kind of use case. You get additional benefits such as iDRAC, PSU redundancy, higher capacity RAM, multi sockets, hardware RAID w/ hot swap, no cooling variables, better hypervisor support, consolidated rack mount form factor, etc.

 

For 2k you could even buy new.