quiet server

[babadoctor]

need preferably quiet server

under 120$

dell poweredge looks nice

 

i have a hard drive with ubuntu server on it, i could plug it into the server

no hard drive needed

 

all ill be using it for is storing data and accessing it now and then

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much does power usage matter?

 

For that price id just buy a old dell optiplex or simmilar. There quiet and low power.

[Ronda]

A Raspberry Pi

But on a more serious note, there are ARM SBCs with SATA ports, which make for pretty good servers http://www.bigboardlist.com/

[ARikozuM]

30 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

need preferably quiet server

under 120$

dell poweredge looks nice

 

i have a hard drive with ubuntu server on it, i could plug it into the server

no hard drive needed

 

all ill be using it for is storing data and accessing it now and then

Archer C7 and a 128GB USB.

[babadoctor]

19 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How much does power usage matter?

 

For that price id just buy a old dell optiplex or simmilar. There quiet and low power.

electricity is free

[NelizMastr]

I use a 2006 Mac Pro as an ESXi server. Upgraded to dual Quad Core 2.33GHz, 32GB RAM, bunch of SATA disks. Very quiet and quite powerful still. Picked it up for 100 euros, upgraded it for another 70 (RAM + CPUs) and hey presto: very stable ESXi 6.0 box.

[Phate.exe]

On 10/4/2016 at 3:38 AM, ARikozuM said:

Archer C7 and a 128GB USB.

An Archer C8 will get you usb 3.0.  I have one, my only complaint (after I installed the updated firmware) is that it's white.

 

As far as actual pc's go, I have a Lenovo Thinkserver 130 running Mint XFCE off an SSD that I'm using as a media server.  Still messing around with getting Plex to see the 2TB drive I have my movies on (it's apparently a common problem with plex on linux), but other than that it's a great little machine.  Dead quiet, boots quickly, snappier than it has any need to be with a 2c/4t Core i3 in it.  It came with a couple gigs of ECC ram, but I'm probably just gonna throw the spare 8 gigs of non-ecc I have sitting around into it.  Pulled off network file transfer from the HDD of one of my machines to the HDD of the server of 90-100MB/s, so I can't complain there.