Best [quiet] home servers for the money
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If money was no object, a Dell VRTX would be awesome. They are like silent.
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For that price range your options are very limited. I'm not sure that I've seen any server-class devices that were that quiet. Beefy workstations might be the best bet.
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I run a white box AMD server. I built it with the requirement that it had to be next to or completely silent. I generally don't mind a loud computer but this was going to be running 24x7. It was ~190$ for the processor, motherboard, RAM and case. Then probably another $150-200 for the drives
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I'm thinking some of those cheap "rackable systems" servers on ebay should be easy to make quiet.. the 2U ones.
I had an HP z800 but I sold it and I don't want to spend that much just for a server.
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@Jason said:
I'm thinking some of those cheap "rackable systems" servers on ebay should be easy to make quiet.. the 2U ones.
I had an HP z800 but I sold it and I don't want to spend that much just for a server.
The next server I get will be rackable with an enterprise level RAID card. I'm hoping the next house has a convenient closet that I can turn into a wiring plant/server closet.
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@coliver said:
@Jason said:
I'm thinking some of those cheap "rackable systems" servers on ebay should be easy to make quiet.. the 2U ones.
I had an HP z800 but I sold it and I don't want to spend that much just for a server.
The next server I get will be rackable with an enterprise level RAID card. I'm hoping the next house has a convenient closet that I can turn into a wiring plant/server closet.
My house does but I still don't want it loud.
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If you want quiet & server to be in the same sentence look at getting a 3/4/5U monster. They don't typically use any 40mm fans except the power supplies. This makes it cheap & easy to make them super quiet.
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@coliver said:
I run a white box AMD server. I built it with the requirement that it had to be next to or completely silent. I generally don't mind a loud computer but this was going to be running 24x7. It was ~190$ for the processor, motherboard, RAM and case. Then probably another $150-200 for the drives
If you want near silent, do the above.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
I run a white box AMD server. I built it with the requirement that it had to be next to or completely silent. I generally don't mind a loud computer but this was going to be running 24x7. It was ~190$ for the processor, motherboard, RAM and case. Then probably another $150-200 for the drives
If you want near silent, do the above.
I would probably do it again. Except I would get a motherboard and processor that supported more then 16GB of RAM. That is the only bottleneck I am running into right now.
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@coliver curse of ITX/miniATX/micro boards?
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@MattSpeller said:
If you want quiet & server to be in the same sentence look at getting a 3/4/5U monster.
Also means shipping is likely more than the server is worth
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@Jason Shop local
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@MattSpeller said:
@Jason Shop local
For overpiced junk? okay
http://blacksburg.craigslist.org/sys/5231167470.html
http://roanoke.craigslist.org/sys/5261375008.html
http://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/sys/5262000390.html -
@Jason Zero sympathy from me
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I just decided to pickup a Dell Precision R5500 workstation computer that is Rackmount 12GB RAM $300. Might go for a second.
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Not bad. What proc is in there?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Not bad. What proc is in there?
2 of these http://ark.intel.com/products/47925/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5620-12M-Cache-2_40-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI
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I think http://www.grcooling.com/ have the quietest servers in the world... literally no noise.
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@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Not bad. What proc is in there?
2 of these http://ark.intel.com/products/47925/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5620-12M-Cache-2_40-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI
Pretty nice, that is a lot of horsepower.
