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20Tb Unraid array for Home storage. Also runs Sickbeard and Newsgroups downloader for Automatic Sync and Crashplan for cloud backup.

Server will support 3Tb Drives so server is upgraded to 60Tb as required.

Make/Model: AIC RSC-4ED2 Custom build
Form Factor: 2U Rack
Roles:
  • Home NAS
OS: Unraid 5
Aprox Cost: £4000
Processor: 2 x AMD 6 core Opteron 2419
RAM: 8Gb DDR2
Storage: 22 x 1Tb 7200 Drives, 2 x 2Tb 7200 Drives
Networking: 2 x 1Gb Nic
Power: 3 x 400W
Make/Model: Fujitsu tx 200 s4
Form Factor: Tower
Roles:
  • Database (e.g. SQL)
OS: Window Server 2003
Aprox Cost:
Processor: Intel III xeon
RAM: 4 gb
Storage: 125
Networking: 4x1Gb
Power:

I went for this because it was very cheap however with the ASRock E350M1 mini-ITX Motherboard inside I decided to upgraded the RAM to 16GB. It can take upto 4 HDDs however it came with the 1TB already installed and it is adequate for what I need it for.

Make/Model: Chenboro ES34169 Custom build
Form Factor: Tower
Roles:
  • Virtual Server Host
OS: Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
Aprox Cost: 50
Processor: AMD Dual-Core Processor E350
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1333mhz (2x8GB)
Storage: 1x 1TB 7200rpm 3.5" (4 Bays)
Networking: 1x Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
Power: 120W

This is a OVH server hosted in there Canadian Datacenter. We use it for Exchange load balancing. we are also using space on its 2TB HDD to have a secondary backup server.

Make/Model: Custom build
Form Factor: 1U Rack
Roles:
  • Email (e.g. Exchange)
OS: Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
Aprox Cost:
Processor: Intel Atom D425 1.8 GHz (512 KB of cache)
RAM: 4 GB DDR3
Storage: 1x 2TB 7200rpm
Networking: 1x 1Gb NIC
Power:

We went for this server because of the cheap price. It has been running for about a year as a backup server for our company. However is quite thirsty and we moved to a more economic custom built system. We do still start it every couple of months to check it still works and we copy the latest backup onto it but it spends most of its life offline.

Make/Model: HP/Compaq DL360 G4p
Form Factor: 1U Rack
Roles:
  • Backup (HDD/Tape/ect)
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
Aprox Cost: £56
Processor: 2x Intel Xeon
RAM: 6GB
Storage: 2x 72GB SCSI
Networking: 2x 1GB NIC 1x ILO
Power: 2x 450w

Custom build Intel based hyper-v (with SCVMM) host.

Runs VMs including:
-PRTG network monitor
-File services (including backups) – dedicated 1TB and 320GB HDD for this VM.
-Game server hosting

Sorry about the pictures, they are a bit blurry.

Make/Model: MESH Custom build
Form Factor: Tower
Roles:
  • Backup (HDD/Tape/ect)
  • File Server
  • Game Host
  • Virtual Server Host
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
Aprox Cost:
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 3.1GHz
RAM: 12GB DDR3
Storage: 1x 500GB 7200rpm, 1x 320GB 7200rpm and 1x 1TB 7200rpm
Networking: 1x1GB NIC
Power: 300W

Looks after my backup of home PCs and acts as a file store.
The drives are in RAID1 for data safety and the whole box is quiet enough to be in a bedroom with no noise at night.

Make/Model: QNAP TS-212
Form Factor: NAS Box
Roles:
  • Backup (HDD/Tape/ect)
  • Firewall/VPN
  • Home NAS
OS: Linux
Aprox Cost: £138 for the box with no drives
Processor: Marvell 6281 1.2GHz
RAM: 256MB DDRII RAM
Storage: 2x2TB 5900rpm
Networking: 1 x Gigabit
Power: 60W

Bought this off eBay as my personal test server. Is running RDS on Server 2008 R2 at the moment but have also clocked up a fair few prime numbers on it.
Shame the CPU won’t run Hyper-V but considering this is a HP G1……..
The 6x15k Ultra320 drives are FAST in RAID0.

Make/Model: HP/Compaq DL385 G1
Form Factor: 2U Rack
Roles:
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Remote Desktop Services/Terminal Server
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
Aprox Cost: £100 off of eBay
Processor: 2x AMD Opteron processors model 285 @ 2.6ghz
RAM: 8GB 400MHz DDR Memory
Storage: 6x 36.4GB 15k Ultra320 (P600/256 BBWC)
Networking: 2x1Gb NIC
Power: 2x575W

Good deal from OVH, runs most of our network. Superfast pings from the UK with amazing performance running about 7 Windows VMs.

Make/Model: Supermicro Custom build
Form Factor: 1U Rack
Roles:
  • Web Host
  • Email (e.g. Exchange)
  • File Server
  • Virtual Server Host
  • Database (e.g. SQL)
  • Directory Services (e.g. Active Directory)
  • DNS
OS: VMWare ESXi 4.1
Aprox Cost:
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.7Ghz Quad Core
RAM: 16GB DDR3
Storage: 2TB SATA 7200rpm
Networking: 1x1Gbps NIC, connect at 100Mbps
Power:

Great cheap dedicated game servers, not too bad at basic webhosting also.

Make/Model: Supermicro Custom build
Form Factor: 1U Rack
Roles:
  • Web Host
  • Other (please specify below)
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Aprox Cost:
Processor: Intel Atom Dual Core 1.6Ghz
RAM: 2GB DDR2
Storage: 1TB SATA 7200rpm
Networking: 1x100Mbps NIC, connect at 100Mbps
Power:

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