[TriLUG] Home server recommendations

Igor Partola igor at igorpartola.com
Fri Feb 7 11:43:19 EST 2014


I wish the HP Microserver was an option: it's too expensive. Even used ones
start at $300 on eBay. It's a pretty ideal form factor and perhaps I should
just save up for one of those. It seems that once people get them, they are
not likely to part with them.

Igor


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm not sure about handling Plex transcoding, but I've been very happy
> with my HP Proliant N40L Microserver.  It can use ECC DIMMs and
> doesn't have much issue with my super basic ZFS config (2 320GB drives
> mirrored and 2 1.5TB drives striped).  I paid just under $200 a couple
> of years ago and it's been a tank running mostly Nexenta but currently
> FreeNAS.
>
>


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