Is 3.5" drive bays a deal breaker? Cause if not, I absolutely LOVE my Hyve Zeus servers!
Do you mean 2.5"? It probably is a deal breaker sadly, unless I can build a DIY SAN or something (I would love to). It sounds bad but I'm probably going to super cheap out on HDDs and buy those crappy £9 SAS drives from ebay and just use aggressive RAID and backups
Also, I can't find a single one of those that isn't shipped from the USA
No. I meant 3.5" your original post listed >= 4 3.5" bays.
In my hyve Zeus servers I run two ssd's in a mirror, and then host all my data on a trunas server with an nfs share. That said, ssd's are really reasonable (just bought 2 x 2packs of 1tb ssd's for $66 each). If space requirements exceed what you can do with some ssd's, then I get it.
I have an r510 as a trunas server. It uses well over a 100 watts, so I can at least provide you that info. Haha.
Nuked my lemmy by accident so using a different account.
No. I meant 3.5" your original post listed >= 4 3.5" bays.
Sorry I figured that out after posting but couldn't edit.
I was hoping to get about 18TB in RAID but really I should probably just built a dedicated NAS with some new drives not crappy used ones anyway. I found a listing for 3TB SAS HDDs for £9 each, probably really bad drives though.
I have an r510 as a trunas server. It uses well over a 100 watts, so I can at least provide you that info. Haha.
I'll have to think about that. It's cost more to run the server for a few months that to buy the thing if it uses too much power.
Unfortunately for that price you're completely dependant on thing being able to be sniped. Look into liquidation auctions, as they generally sell out of warranty really cheap servers.