I am currently using a very old server as my NAS. It has 16 IDE drives and tops out at about 3.6 TB capacity. It also uses about 330 watts at idle. Since I'm out of space and it costs too much to run and maintain anymore, I need to move to something newer.
My needs are something with true hardware RAID 6, hot swap drives, at least 16 TB in RAID 6, and less than 330 watts. So far I've got my eye on a refurb Dell Poweredge 2900 Gen 3 with 10x 2TB drives, PERC 6i, 16GB RAM, Xeon L5420, and remote access card. Total cost is around $1,800, which is far cheaper than anything I was able to do from scratch. The cost of the drives and RAID controller alone are more than that with new hardware. Am I missing any good deals elsewhere?
Even using the crappy WD Red drives, I'd still have about that much into drives alone, and another $400+ in a good RAID card. And most higher end rackmount NAS units seem to be over $2k without drives. Too bad because I love the idea of having a small (Atom/Celeron) CPU for low power draw. But the 50 watt L5420 is still way better than the 2x 89 watt Xeon system I have now.
My needs are something with true hardware RAID 6, hot swap drives, at least 16 TB in RAID 6, and less than 330 watts. So far I've got my eye on a refurb Dell Poweredge 2900 Gen 3 with 10x 2TB drives, PERC 6i, 16GB RAM, Xeon L5420, and remote access card. Total cost is around $1,800, which is far cheaper than anything I was able to do from scratch. The cost of the drives and RAID controller alone are more than that with new hardware. Am I missing any good deals elsewhere?
Even using the crappy WD Red drives, I'd still have about that much into drives alone, and another $400+ in a good RAID card. And most higher end rackmount NAS units seem to be over $2k without drives. Too bad because I love the idea of having a small (Atom/Celeron) CPU for low power draw. But the 50 watt L5420 is still way better than the 2x 89 watt Xeon system I have now.
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