What to do for first server?

[thanjon]

Anybody have any good hardware they recommend for a home server?

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, thanjon said:

Anybody have any good hardware they recommend for a home server?

What are you planning to do with this server? 

 

 

[thanjon]

Just now, Abdul201588 said:

What are you planning to do with this server? 

 

 

basically mass data storage, improve wifi usage? maybe? nothing fancy.

[thanjon]

Just now, JaredM54 said:

Budget and do you want to buy used? I like R710s and also have a Microserver gen8 that I love.

used is fine. maybe a couple hundered bucks? basically i exhausted my budget on the pc below and im kinda shortchanged.

[Sir Asvald]

4 minutes ago, thanjon said:

basically mass data storage, improve wifi usage? maybe? nothing fancy.

 

3 minutes ago, thanjon said:

used is fine. maybe a couple hundered bucks? basically i exhausted my budget on the pc below and im kinda shortchanged.

How much is couple? 200-300?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, thanjon said:

used is fine. maybe a couple hundered bucks? basically i exhausted my budget on the pc below and im kinda shortchanged.

if it's just storage, and you dont mind noise, scout around on the interwebz for second hand HP proliant G5-G6-G7.

 

datacenters that upgrade throw these out by the masses, and a lot fo them end up for sale on the interwebz between €20 (for a basic G5) and €500-ish (for a decked out G7)

[lukesterboy]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

 

How much is couple? 200-300?

 

A "couple" is 2. Just like a married couple.

[ImJames]

Just now, lukesterboy said:

A "couple" is 2. Just like a married couple.

True dat.

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, lukesterboy said:

A "couple" is 2. Just like a married couple.

replace every occoruance of "fish" with "server"

 

in all seriousness, i could tinker around on PCPP to see what can be done on an extreme budget.

and if dumpster diving is legal in your area (or if a keg of beer changes laws ) you could go dig around e-waste, and come up with some impressive results

[spellmanuk]

Depends how powerful you wanted it to be you could do it with a raspberry pi if you wanted or you could get one of those HP machines that @manikyath was on about those are your best bets IMO

[manikyath]

2 hours ago, peej said:

Depends how powerful you wanted it to be you could do it with a raspberry pi if you wanted or you could get one of those HP machines that @manikyath was on about those are your best bets IMO

a raspberry pi is pure cringe in terms of data troughput.

 

both LAN and your storage have to go trough a single usb 2.0 link.

[spellmanuk]

Just now, manikyath said:

a raspberry pi is pure cringe in terms of data troughput.

 

both LAN and your storage have to go trough a single usb 2.0 link.

yeah i know it works well for basic uses though

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, peej said:

yeah i know it works well for basic uses though

in all honesty, it doesnt. between the hilareously slow troughput, and the quite limited performance of the platform, it's a matter of time before you start going insane.

[spellmanuk]

Just now, manikyath said:

in all honesty, it doesnt. between the hilareously slow troughput, and the quite limited performance of the platform, it's a matter of time before you start going insane.

i used to use one for photo archiving and it worked fine for me but that process was in no rush so speed wasnt an issue in this case as the machine it was archiving from was always on

[Mikensan]

You could start early by using vbox on your personal PC and spinning up some labs. I would second buying the Dell R710/R610 or the HP Gen6/Gen7. Lot of bang for your buck, can find variants that still use 3.5" disks.

 

I can't speak for the HPs but the Dell R710/R610 are pretty quiet / low noise.

 

Your hardest challenge will be disks to fill your server with.

[NelizMastr]

Microservers are your friend. They are designed to be relatively quiet and typically use commodity hardware, minus the ECC memory, but that's no biggie.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by improving wifi usage. Unless you have like 50-100 simultaneous clients using Wi-Fi, stuff like QoS and loadbalancing won't do much at all. In fact, it's designed for handling hundreds of clients. Connecting the server itself to Wi-Fi is a bad idea because network transfers really suffer from the interference issues which greatly degrade available bandwidth. You really need a badass AC router and AC clients to go over 10MB/s over Wi-Fi sustained, where gigabit ethernet will yield the full 100MB/s no sweat.

 

First get your goals straight, then start looking for hardware instead of the other way around. That's the best advice I can give you.

[thanjon]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

Microservers are your friend. They are designed to be relatively quiet and typically use commodity hardware, minus the ECC memory, but that's no biggie.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by improving wifi usage. Unless you have like 50-100 simultaneous clients using Wi-Fi, stuff like QoS and loadbalancing won't do much at all. In fact, it's designed for handling hundreds of clients. Connecting the server to Wi-Fi itself is a bad idea because network transfers really suffer from the interference issues which greatly degrade available bandwidth. You really need a badass AC router and AC clients to go over 10MB/s over Wi-Fi sustained, where gigabit ethernet will yield the full 100MB/s no sweat.

 

First get your goals straight, then start looking for hardware instead of the other way around. That's the best advice I can give you.

Will do. Thanks.