Date: 13 Nov 2014 08:37:36 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jcigar@ulb.ac.be Subject: Re: Small/Low Power Server Recommendation? Message-ID: <20141113083736.7746.qmail@ary.lan> In-Reply-To: <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan>
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In article <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan> you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:57:02AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: >> I am looking to replace a huge noisy old server that I have used for years >> for my home business. Looking for something inexpensive and relatively >> small to replace it with. Any recommendations guys/gals? I bought a mini PC from these guys: http://www.mini-box.com/MiniPC-Value-Systems With a 60GB SSD and a reasonable amount of RAM (4GB? I'm on the other side of the country and can't look) it was about $250. Internally it's a normal PC, plug in an Ethernet cable, boot the FreeBSD installer from a USB stick and off you go. It's fanless, small, silent, and reliable. I use it for the usual home server stuff. I had some 1 GB disk drives lying around so I bought a four drive ESATA case and a PCI ESATA adapter card, and have a 3GB ZFS RAID. I looked at Soekris but this was cheaper and required no kludgery to set up since it has a normal screen adapter and USB for the keyboard. R's, John
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