Help? I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that: Has RAID1 internal (not an external USB RAID thing) ??? Can be software or hardware small (4TB/drive fine) and low power I plan to use it ONLY for email server.? perhaps iRedMail I have spent a lot of time looking and not finding any such piece of metal. All I find are NAS boxes with their own OS. thanks Bob (frustrated)
It depends on the structure of the drives.? Do you want a dedicated controller card or is an embedded card on the motherboard acceptable? Entry Level Dell Poweredge T150 servers could work, or build your own rig with an SLI MegaRAID or HighPoint RocketRAID dedicated controller card. There are configurations like this in a Rackmount configuration, tower configurations, or Mini Server configurations, it all depends on what kind of space / budget / environment it is going in. Reply back with more details if you want a better answer. Chris On 1/3/2023 3:55 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:> Help? > > I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that: > > Has RAID1 internal (not an external USB RAID thing) > ??? Can be software or hardware > > small (4TB/drive fine) and low power > > I plan to use it ONLY for email server.? perhaps iRedMail > > I have spent a lot of time looking and not finding any such piece of > metal. > > All I find are NAS boxes with their own OS. > > thanks > > Bob (frustrated) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Christopher Wensink IS Administrator Five Star Plastics, Inc 1339 Continental Drive Eau Claire, WI 54701 Office: 715-831-1682 Mobile: 715-563-3112 Fax: 715-831-6075 cwensink at five-star-plastics.com www.five-star-plastics.com
At Tue, 3 Jan 2023 16:55:40 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote:> > Help? > > I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that: > > Has RAID1 internal (not an external USB RAID thing) > ???????????? Can be software or hardwareAll modern Linux kernels include software RAID out-of-the-box. This means any system that supports more than one disk that you can install Linux on (including CentOS) can be set up with Linux software RAID. If you want hot-swap, there are various SATA hot-swap units than can be mounted in a ATX case with front 5" or 3" spaces. A modern ATX motherboard with a AHA SATA controller will support Linux, including hot-swap SATA disks, including SATA connected SSDs.> > small (4TB/drive fine) and low power > > I plan to use it ONLY for email server.???? perhaps iRedMail > > I have spent a lot of time looking and not finding any such piece of metal. > > All I find are NAS boxes with their own OS. > > thanks > > Bob (frustrated) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
Hi Robert, my old home server needed to much energy (~80VA) permanently, so I went for an https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/ The manufacturer is located in Korea and has dealers around the world. Put it in one of their cases https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-case-type-1/ add two drives and you will have a system that consumes less than 20VA under load, less than 15VA idle. My new system is just doing its job, the whole thing will be below 250USD excluding drives. Michael Tuesday, January 3, 2023, 10:55:40 PM, schriebst Du:> Help?> I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that:> Has RAID1 internal (not an external USB RAID thing) > ??? Can be software or hardware> small (4TB/drive fine) and low power> I plan to use it ONLY for email server.? perhaps iRedMail> I have spent a lot of time looking and not finding any such piece of metal.> All I find are NAS boxes with their own OS.> thanks> Bob (frustrated) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Michael Schumacher