Buying a new server
Hi all, I have an 7 year old dell server that is in need of replacement. It's uses among others are MythTV backend, Asterisk, Web server, email, IP routing, various Java web apps. I had spec'ed and almost bought a new Dell server but got really disenchanted with their crappy sales guys. They wouldn't remove the 500Gb hard disk that added $300 to the price and suggested I go to ebay for additional hard disk caddies which apparently don't come with it. The plan was to add 4 Seagate SV35.5 3Tb drives which are about $300 ea and mdraid them. I've since been looking into building my own server but I'm not sure what to do for a case. I'm after a case with 6+ hot-plug backplane, preferably redundant PSU and tool-less. I found the Chenbro SR11269 which is mostly what I need but various places sell different PSU's for it. There's the C2W-3820V-R and C2W-5820V which differ in price by about $200 but I can't find any information about what's differences between them. Also they state '*For Tylersburg' so I'm not sure if they'll work with the motherboard I've chosen (S2600COE). I've also looked at Intel cases for this motherboard but they come at a premium. So does anyone have any suggestions of where I go from here? I'm happy to buy a pre-built server but not happy about buying Dell anymore. I'm also happy to build my own. The budget is about $3000 and the specs I'm after are roughly are: 1x 6 core Intel Xeon processor Motherboard with 2 processor sockets, 2+ Gigabit LAN, 6+ SATA 12+ GB or ram upgradable 6+ hot plug case with SATA backplane redundant PSU 9+ TB raid 5 Disk space Cheers, Dave.
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 13:53 +1000, Dave Oxley wrote:
Hi all,
I have an 7 year old dell server that is in need of replacement. It's uses among others are MythTV backend, Asterisk, Web server, email, IP routing, various Java web apps. I had spec'ed and almost bought a new Dell server but got really disenchanted with their crappy sales guys. They wouldn't remove the 500Gb hard disk that added $300 to the price and suggested I go to ebay for additional hard disk caddies which apparently don't come with it. The plan was to add 4 Seagate SV35.5 3Tb drives which are about $300 ea and mdraid them.
I've since been looking into building my own server but I'm not sure what to do for a case. I'm after a case with 6+ hot-plug backplane, preferably redundant PSU and tool-less. I found the Chenbro SR11269 which is mostly what I need but various places sell different PSU's for it. There's the C2W-3820V-R and C2W-5820V which differ in price by about $200 but I can't find any information about what's differences between them. Also they state '*For Tylersburg' so I'm not sure if they'll work with the motherboard I've chosen (S2600COE). I've also looked at Intel cases for this motherboard but they come at a premium.
So does anyone have any suggestions of where I go from here? I'm happy to buy a pre-built server but not happy about buying Dell anymore. I'm also happy to build my own.
The budget is about $3000 and the specs I'm after are roughly are: 1x 6 core Intel Xeon processor Motherboard with 2 processor sockets, 2+ Gigabit LAN, 6+ SATA 12+ GB or ram upgradable 6+ hot plug case with SATA backplane redundant PSU 9+ TB raid 5 Disk space
Cheers, Dave. _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@lists.luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk
Hi Dave, I've had great success with IBM servers and the x3400 M3 could be worth a look, depending on what options you're after it may come in at under the $3K mark. On the plus side they support a few different flavours of Linux and have a next business day 3 year on site support. Cheers, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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