which old server should i buy?

[Ashleyyyy]

i'm looking at installing a small server rack in my bedroom, because i have a lot of data i need to save. 

 

is there a rackmount server that's semi-quiet (because it's in my bedroom) and has space for 8 3.5" drives? 

 

i prefer an older model (X58 era) because those are really cheap on the used market here. 

[emosun]

22 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

is there a rackmount server that's semi-quiet

in their stock configuration? no

 

 

[kevdagoat]

On 10/28/2018 at 12:30 AM, firelighter487 said:

i'm looking at installing a small server rack in my bedroom

Good luck sleeping 

[Ashleyyyy]

2 minutes ago, kevdagoat said:

Good luck sleeping 

i sleep with music playing so i'm sure a quiet server won't keep me awake. 

[beersykins]

 

12 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

i sleep with music playing so i'm sure a quiet server won't keep me awake. 

You're going to struggle to find something you'd actually want to sleep next to, unless you roll a low power atom based server.

 

I'd say you'd be better off building one so you can control that aspect specifically.  I have a r610 from that era (2x L5640) it's comparatively quiet for a server but I wouldn't want to sleep next to it.

[Jacob R]

Get an upright tower such as a Dell Precision t5500 or a T7500 and put an extra SATA adapter in one of its many PCI-e slots and attach as many HDD as you need.

[Ashleyyyy]

6 hours ago, Jacob R said:

Get an upright tower such as a Dell Precision t5500 or a T7500 and put an extra SATA adapter in one of its many PCI-e slots and attach as many HDD as you need.

i could get a ProLiant ML350 G6 then... 

 

i'm very familiar with those. i have one but it has issues so i can't really use it.... i also have an ML350 G5 as my file server so yea, i'm a bit of a ProLiant fanboy  

 

that would be perfect though. i can put parts from my first G6 in the new one and make an epic build out of the 2... 

[AbsoluteFool]

Quiet rack mount server? Sure no problem.. get a 4U rack chassis and consumer hardware. As quiet as it can get.

But from joke to serious. Everything that is servers. 1U-3U is quite loud and there is more or less nothing you can do with it. If you find a 4U server you can replace some fans and do some trickery without it getting way too warm.

[AngryBeaver]

Honestly, you would be best server to build your own storage server.

 

Pickup a case with lots of HD bays, drop in a Pentium gold cpu. Then just grab a motherboard with lots of sata ports, 4-8gb of ram, a pci-e sata card and just fill it up with Hd's. Let me price one fast. Didn't add any storage cause that is where most of the price is going to come from. Add another 20-30 bucks for a pci-e sata card. You can also go with a bigger case if you wish for more drive bays.

 

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[gamerking]

On 10/30/2018 at 11:59 AM, AbsoluteFool said:

Quiet rack mount server? Sure no problem.. get a 4U rack chassis and consumer hardware. As quiet as it can get.

But from joke to serious. Everything that is servers. 1U-3U is quite loud and there is more or less nothing you can do with it. If you find a 4U server you can replace some fans and do some trickery without it getting way too warm.

i got my 2u supermicro CSE-826 server "quiet ", 8 way pwm fan splitter put all the fans on it and set my bios to the min speed they run at and its no louder then a h110iv2 now , mine has 10k rpm fans so 2200 i think there at at full speed its like a jet passing over , and they still move alot of air thur the hdd trays . have a ryzen 1700x in it since i couldnt get the Board that came with it sadly . i know what i did wouldn't work if you had a x299 i9 cpu or one of the 28coe xeon's it would cook itself then.

[Harry L B]

I have a Fujitsu RX300 S6 server. Whilst it only has 6 bays, it is fairly quiet and you could mod the fans to make them spin slower. Mine also came with an LSI RAID card pre installed. It is also a really cheap server. I got mine for £55 with 3/6 hard drives, 24GB of ram and 1/2 Xeon.