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    • DustinB3403
      DustinB3403 last edited by

      So I got a few servers from the old NTG lag from Scott a while back, and I'm finally getting to get them setup. I'm starting with the DL185 G5 (as drive bays for these are stupidly cheap) and I have a lot of capacity.

      I'm still flipping between KVM (with the recent topics here and XCP-ng), but am open to be swayed.

      Looking for a few project ideas on what to use this unit for, I'm thinking I want to setup an NVR (likely ZoneMinder) as I'll have 24 TB raw to play with.

      Anything else worthwhile setting up in a household?

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        Could just use it for HUGE storage.

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        • DustinB3403
          DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller last edited by

          @scottalanmiller for what content? Having a massive SMB/NFS share doesn't do me a lot of good without it serving some content up.

          And since we don't download anything for offline use, a share of this size doesn't make sense.

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          • Dashrender
            Dashrender @DustinB3403 last edited by

            @DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5:

            @scottalanmiller for what content? Having a massive SMB/NFS share doesn't do me a lot of good without it serving some content up.

            And since we don't download anything for offline use, a share of this size doesn't make sense.

            Which then begs the question - what are you going to do with it? It's expensive to run for the compute power it provides.

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            • DustinB3403
              DustinB3403 @Dashrender last edited by

              @Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share.

              Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.)

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              • Dashrender
                Dashrender @DustinB3403 last edited by

                @DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5:

                @Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share.

                Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.)

                huh - years from now - the power cost alone makes me thing that's not worth while.

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                • Dashrender
                  Dashrender @DustinB3403 last edited by

                  @DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5:

                  @Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share.

                  Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.)

                  All these things basically go directly to what Scott said - make it a giant storage array.

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