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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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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:
Aprox Cost: |
Processor: Intel Atom Dual Core 1.6Ghz RAM: 2GB DDR2 Storage: 1TB SATA 7200rpm Networking: 1x100Mbps NIC, connect at 100Mbps Power: |
