Server Spec

howler · 28 Aug 2009 at 08:41

Can someone recommend me a server, its basically going to be a file server, needs around 500Gb or RAID storage with a reasonable spec to last for a while

Would prefer HP

howler · 28 Aug 2009 at 09:55

Sorry should have said, needs to be a rack server 1 or 2U

howler · 28 Aug 2009 at 10:29

I assume that I can plug any 3.5" drives into those bays?

howler · 28 Aug 2009 at 10:37

ah ok, I wish that HP had the customisation thing like the Dell site

howler · 28 Aug 2009 at 11:02

Seems Dell have changed the naming of the servers, the are R*** now

howler · 28 Aug 2009 at 11:30

Right, this is getting silly now.

On the Dell site looking at different servers, select a PowerEdge R410, choose the hot plug chassis, choose a hot plug raid controller and choose hot plug disks but it still tells me I need hot plug disks or chassis

Is it not possible to have that server in a hot plug config even though they offer the chassis option

howler · 1 Sep 2009 at 09:26

Yes a 10k server is a trifle overkill

We ended up buying a DL360G5 in the end as we got a decent deal on it from one of our suppliers and it was available for Saturday delivery, I had a great bank holiday weekend!

The server is a little overkill for what it does at the moment but we can move stuff to it if we need to now