How much does it cost to build a low storage home server? It doesn't have to be an uninterruptible failure proof tank, just something to start dicking around with.
$100
>>54660323
>low storage home server?
any ebay dekstop or labtob for like $200
+ free server linux
>>54660323
Cheaper than shit. Pretty much anything will do for basic work, if you want that "enterprise" feeling, low-power 1U rackmounts are very cheap and good for most home server jobs. Tower servers are a little more expensive, probably because they're not as common.
I personally use a little SPARC box for hosting a website, light development and remote access for shit like note taking and checking my mail from anywhere, Sun stuff can be had very cheaply (under $100 not including shipping) right now and lower-end systems like the Fire V100/V120 are very light on heat and power.
>>54660323
You can get a p4/c2d optiplex for ~$25-35 on craigslist. Then just throw in a couple terabytes of drives and you are good. I also use mine to watch netflix and twitch on.
>>54660425
Sounds weird, but I love the look of your V100. I found a SunFire V100 (380-0585-02) - 550MHz UltraSPARC IIi/ 256MB RAM on ebay for cheap as Hel l on ebay. Do they have any restrictions hard drive wise? Thank you sir
>>54660425
SVR a shit
>>54660323
About $30
>>54660735
is it fast enough though ?
>>54660766
The new one is
$19
Orange Pi One, 16GB sd card, usb to 1.9mm jack, and for an extra $1, a 18650 to usb holder with board, throw in an 18650 from a dumpster.
$20 home server.
Fuck it, grab a phone from the dumpster while you're at it, throw on debian kit
>>54660323
>lots of sata ports
>lots of drives
>decent psu
>raid 5 (if you really care) (also if performance is not critical use software raid, sometimes its easier to get the data back in soft raid)
thats pretty much it
gl
>>54660766
Fast enough for everything I do, which isn't too intensive desu. I have four running, and these are what I use them for
>private SFTP server
>host a few websites nobody uses
>tor relays
>bitcoin miner (on those asic things)
>torrents
>a few site scrapers
>backups
>a bunch of sysadmin shit I wanted to try out
I don't stream video with them, but I use them for a lot of stuff.
>>54660323
how much storage do you need?
>>54660896
20gb would do
>>54660425
i'd like to get one of these but they only use IDE on the motherboard. all of my hard drives are updated sata. have you had an issue with this? do you use an adapter, or the hard drive that came with it?
>>54660992
if you actually want to put your own hardware together then Pi is the cheapest and best option.
best alternative would be to buy some 20$-40$ beater from craigslist or kijiji.
sometimes you can luck out at the thrift store and get a working box for 10$.
Pi is the best cause it saves lots of energy but you have a smaller range of software for it.
Any old computer + Wake on LAN + remote desktop. Share every drive. No startup costs, practically no setup time, access to hard drives over a network that you can either keep on 24/7, or send to hibernate once your done using it.
>>54661070
This, a Pi does great as a low-use home server. I have a few around for different things, including network storage and XBMC. There are plenty of guides on HowToGeek for it, too.
>>54660877
If you have a CPU better than a motherfucking 486, you can run a decent software RAID 5.
>>54661224
pic related is a similar price and ready to go.
there are a few popular distros compiled for arm.
>>54661420
woops
>>54660643
>>54661051
V100s are based on some pretty old tech, probably most similar to the Ultra 5/10 series of workstations, and with that they carry a 128 GB controller limit on IDE drives, at least as far as I'm aware. You can still use bigger drives on them, however, but you can't utilize their full capacity.
I don't really mind it, storage isn't a big deal for what I do on it and I'm pretty content with the single 120 GB disk I've already got in it.
You can also take a look at the V120, same enclosure and CPU but with bigger, faster SCSI drives, double the RAM capacity and a PCI slot. If you need more than a couple 300GB/600GB drives, you can also get matching StorEdge S2 SCSI drive enclosures for $25-$50 all day long.
Other good options are the V125, last of the line in a newer aluminum enclosure, with a faster CPU and doubled RAM capacity over the 120, or the T1000 which eats a little more power but can take SAS/SATA drives and uses 8-core UltraSPARC T1 chips, you can snag those for around $50-$100 plus shipping. Some people don't like the fan noise, though.
>>54661663
>StorEdge S2
S1, shit
>>54661663
thanks for the (you)
i'll check out the t1k
just buy a 20 dollar old athlon shitbox off craigslist like an old emachines dell or something and install gentoo (or whatever os) on it
>>54662072
If it's going to be slow and cheap, might as well not use a lot of electricity. Get a raspberry pi.
>>54662090
but a raspberry pi would be more expensive once you factor in the things you have to get to make it work
>>54660766
your home network will bottleneck more.
At least, my ethernet can't put through 10GB BR rips. anything short of that would be fine.
I paid about $400 for mine, 4x4TB Seagates for $50 a pop on black friday, and the rest in memory, motherboard, and case. I had a PSU lying around already so it would probably have been closer to $500.
>>54662121
Maybe, but SD cards and USB power supplies gather in my house like dust.
>>54660766
not for being a media server
>>54662144
Unless your house is full of 10baseT and Fast Ethernet gear, I don't think so.
>>54660323
$15 + the hard drive
get a pi zero
>>54662245
>implying anyone can buy a pi zero
>>54662197
>(you)
faggot doesn't know what he's talking about
hope I got baited
>>54662250
I got one B^)
http://whereismypizero.com/
>>54662251
Can you phrase your aspergers in the form of a response?
>>54662176
then i'd definately use the rpi if that were the case
>>54662197
I use a banana pi to serve media over http and it werks fine
>>54660425
>>54661663
just curious, which operating system have you been using with yours? wondering about compatibility with gnu/linux. wikipedia says openBSD is compatible with sunfire servers
>>54662257
>using the smiley with a carat nose
>>54660323
Well, you can buy a new HDD for like $20, a miniITX board with CPU embedded for about $30 and a PSU for about $20.
So around $70 for all new hardware.
Or you can just dumpster dive and get for free.
>>54662434
I run Solaris 10/09, which was the last release before Oracle took it over. Solaris will of course have the best hardware support, and it also has the best SPARC compilers. There are people who swear by it up and down as a much more elegant system than GNU/Linux, but I can't really speak to it, since I've never used GNU/Linux for a non-desktop role long enough to have a real opinion on it. One thing I can say is that supposedly Solaris' method of service management is apparently unique to the platform, and it's very convenient, especially when I'm swapping out default services for newer versions from OpenCSW.
OpenBSD probably isn't a bad choice either for a server use case, won't support any bells and whistles or expansions like the SunPCi/Crypto Accelerator cards, but most of that is really only a concern on workstations and older systems. On a T1K you'll probably be good, OBSD would probably be a little more "turnkey" as well, Solaris takes a little getting used to, but exploring it and taming it taught me a lot and made the experience a little more exciting.
GNU/Linux seems to have lackluster support nowadays, with many big distros like Debian dropping their SPARC port altogether and probably shittier application support since I would reckon most people running new or used SPARC gear are probably going with Solaris unless they have something specific/educational in mind.
But really, for a home server, I think anything you prefer will be just fine. If you still want to give Solaris a try, Solaris 10 ISOs are pretty easy to find laying around on FTP servers (usually in the format sol10_u<update number, 8 for 10/09>_ga_sparc.iso)
>>54662144
Why would you rip Brazil?
Raspberry PI + USB HDD.
cheapo.
>>54664979
Out of curiosity, and being another anon, is the sound similar to any common 1U server?
>>54660323
I bought a used Apple XServe for $320.
3X500Gig SASI/SATA hot-swap drives.
8Gig ECC RAM.
Dual redundant powersupplies.
2 Gig ethernet ports.
2X 2GHz dual core Xenon CPUs.
In a 1 RU chassis.
Came with OSX Server installed.
Howls like a banshee.
