• New office, rack servers storage?
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Well my father is moving into new office premises, and I'm doing the IT. Surprisingly, the office has a left over rack with two switches already in place inside, all wiring already done! I'm setting up a backup server and a fax server. On the backup server will be running Windows Home Server which i find excellent and will backup both the PC and Mac's in the office. Since the resource needs for the servers are very low I am planning just to get some £60 HP's from eBay and bump up the storage, they are already Dual Xeon with 2GB Ram each. The only query I am coming across is this: "up to 160 GB maximum internal storage" It is an HP DL140. What I am wondering is, is this the maximum that the BIOS can support? Or is everyone just copy and pasting from the press release, where 160 was the maximum configurable amount that you could purchase with it at the time? Seeing as it will be a backup server the storage kind of needs to be quite high.. Thank's in advance to anyone that can help.
specs on said HP server please bonus if you include model number of them
[QUOTE=Van-man;25789864]specs on said HP server please bonus if you include model number of them[/QUOTE] [quote]It is an HP DL140.[/quote] :colbert:
What he said ^^. Basically I can't budget to pick up a server with SATA so I'm stuck with ATA-100. I think my best case is the max of 2x 160gb HDD's or worst is 2x 80's. Also, it's the 2.4Ghz model, dual, when looking at the specific.
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;25790353]:colbert:[/QUOTE] Well I'll be damned. My eyes are playing tricks on me again. Also according to [url]http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11821_div/11821_div.PDF[/url] it's only Equipped with two PATA-100 hdd bays. So i wouldn't use it for a storage server. Perhaps another old box with a S-ATA PCI card and FreeNAS could do that instead? [editline]1st November 2010[/editline] well fuck, ninja'd I highly doubt you can circumvent that limitation.
Backup server. Windows home server. Please hold while I laugh myself to death. That's like burning your backups to DVDs and then hammering them into pieces. Also, you're not going to need more than 160GB for office backup + fax.
My old Dell 4600 from 2004 has SATA ports, just get a tower and throw FreeNAS on it.
[QUOTE=nikomo;25790857]Backup server. Windows home server. Please hold while I laugh myself to death. That's like burning your backups to DVDs and then hammering them into pieces. Also, you're not going to need more than 160GB for office backup + fax.[/QUOTE] Don't see exactly why you are laughing, I have used it for over a year and hasn't failed me yet. I had a hard drive failure on a PC and was able to instantly restore the PC's image back to a new HDD inside the tower.
For something as high-availability as a business, you're really going to need to look into *nix (think Debian or Arch?) with manual Samba configuration. Will make you want to rip your arteries out, but it'll be well worth it when it's finally running.
[QUOTE=leach139;25791220]For something as high-availability as a business, you're really going to need to look into *nix (think Debian or Arch?) with manual Samba configuration. Will make you want to rip your arteries out, but it'll be well worth it when it's finally running.[/QUOTE] Gotta agree there. Once it's configured (IF configured correctly) you can forget about it, because it'll run for years. Well except for power outages, but don't be a cheapskate and buy a decent UPS if the data is "mission-critical"
[QUOTE=Funny;25790579]What he said ^^. Basically I can't budget to pick up a server with SATA so I'm stuck with ATA-100. I think my best case is the max of 2x 160gb HDD's or worst is 2x 80's. Also, it's the 2.4Ghz model, dual, when looking at the specific.[/QUOTE] You might as well build your own if you don't have SATA.
Cool. Thank's for the advice guys.
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