Best server for under $300 AUD

[Spoiled_Kitten]

I am looking for a high spec server to use freeNAS on that will be quick and powerful enough, my budget is $300AUD but i would prefer to not spend as much if possible.

[Slottr]

Powerful enough for..?

[Spoiled_Kitten]

2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Powerful enough for..?

I would like it to be able to do real time backups, upload those backups to the cloud, and have raid of atleast 2 maybe 3 drives.

[Windows9]

You can get a Dell Poweredge with 3.5 hard drive bays for around $200 and then get used SAS drives for around $100 (around 10TB)

[Blue4130]

17 hours ago, Spoiled_Kitten said:

I would like it to be able to do real time backups, upload those backups to the cloud, and have raid of atleast 2 maybe 3 drives.

How many machines does it need to back up at once? 

[Spoiled_Kitten]

5 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

How many machines does it need to back up at once? 

about 4 maybe a couple more, i have another post where i wish to use it for free nas if u look at that, it may help clarify

[Spoiled_Kitten]

17 hours ago, Windows9 said:

You can get a Dell Poweredge with 3.5 hard drive bays for around $200 and then get used SAS drives for around $100 (around 10TB)

Where abouts? looking on gumtree cant find any that cheap.

[Blue4130]

32 minutes ago, Spoiled_Kitten said:

about 4 maybe a couple more, i have another post where i wish to use it for free nas if u look at that, it may help clarify

For this type of load, you really don't need much. An old office machine with some extra drives would do fine. Heck, a Raspberry Pi can handle this, you're just more limited in the drives that you can add.

 

https://www.pcexchange.com/dell-optiplex-9010-tower-quad-core-i5-3-2ghz-8gb-ram-500gb-hdd-dvd-rw-windows-10-pro-64-desktop-computer/

 

Something like this with some drives added in.

[Windows9]

4 hours ago, Spoiled_Kitten said:

Where abouts? looking on gumtree cant find any that cheap.

ebay

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-2x-X5650-2-66GHz-Six-core-48GB-RAM-6-x-3-5-Caddy-Perc-6i/382898229363?hash=item5926835073:g:~WkAAOSw~XVdXmRQ

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Poweredge-1950-Gen3-2-x-intel-Xeon-L5335-2-00GHz-2Gb-2-x-3-5-SAS-Bays-1U/401496694180?hash=item5d7b115da4:g:ZCcAAOSw1QpaFY7o

[Jarsky]

4 hours ago, Spoiled_Kitten said:

about 4 maybe a couple more, i have another post where i wish to use it for free nas if u look at that, it may help clarify

For such a tiny number of machines....what server you get really depends on how big a FreeNAS server you want. 

If you don't have a rack and just want like 4-6 drives then i'd just look at cheap midi computers in your area. You don't need a strong CPU for backup or fileserver tasks. 

Check out gumtree.com.au and ebay.com.au. Ideally you want at least 8GB of RAM for FreeNAS which will give you a couple of GB's for ARC, and overhead for dedup. 

[Spoiled_Kitten]

15 hours ago, Jarsky said:

For such a tiny number of machines....what server you get really depends on how big a FreeNAS server you want. 

If you don't have a rack and just want like 4-6 drives then i'd just look at cheap midi computers in your area. You don't need a strong CPU for backup or fileserver tasks. 

Check out gumtree.com.au and ebay.com.au. Ideally you want at least 8GB of RAM for FreeNAS which will give you a couple of GB's for ARC, and overhead for dedup. 

I wish for it to have like 8 drives maybe more, My house hold has lots of storage, I wish to be able to use it to stream movies to my tv's as well.

[Blue4130]

2 hours ago, Spoiled_Kitten said:

I wish for it to have like 8 drives maybe more, My house hold has lots of storage, I wish to be able to use it to stream movies to my tv's as well.

With 8 to 10 TB drives common now, why do you think that you need 8 or more drives? That seriously impacts what you can run for a server. 

[Jarsky]

3 hours ago, Spoiled_Kitten said:

I wish for it to have like 8 drives maybe more, My house hold has lots of storage, I wish to be able to use it to stream movies to my tv's as well.

I'm confused by you having less than a $300 budget for the server...yet you can afford storage for 8+ disks?

Do you already have the disks? The number of disks has nothing to do with your ability to stream to TV's. If you're going to be running FreeNAS, using their jail Plex can take care of that. 

[Spoiled_Kitten]

23 hours ago, Jarsky said:

I'm confused by you having less than a $300 budget for the server...yet you can afford storage for 8+ disks?

Do you already have the disks? The number of disks has nothing to do with your ability to stream to TV's. If you're going to be running FreeNAS, using their jail Plex can take care of that. 

i wish to be able to upgrade to 8 later, i will be backing up all my photos (i have tonnnes) scanning in photos and developed negs etc, i also have a ton of movies which will be taking up lots of space, i only wish to spend $300 on the computer and an SSD, other stuff can be added later.