I use Compaq G1 DL380's off ebay ($80), add SATA controller + disk + DDS4
tape and off you go.
$80 will probably get you 2 way 1Ghz + 1G mem + 2 x 18G SCSI disk (just for
OS). The G1's have lots of space for extra SATA disks, etc.
get something as cheap as possible
if you can grab something around the 2ghz mark with around 512 meg of ram.
if you want to run a gui on the machine, maybe a little more ram. disk
space is up to you.
you can just toss an inexpensive SATA controller into the machine then
drop
in large disks.
my home file server (headless) is basically
dual p3 800
1gig ecc ram
system drives 2x8gig ibm scsi
4x200gig (PATA converters connecting to SATA controller)
2x350gig SATA
1x20 gig (which i will soon be ditching)
64bit fibre gig nic
most of the guts of the machine is proper server hardware, ie the
motherboard is an intel server
board with onboard scsi. also ecc memory is overkill. but this stuff is
almost thrown away on ebay
these days.
the sata controllers are just $50 4 port controllers which you can get
from
any place.
they run perfectly as far as i can tell. but im just running from home, so
at any one time there might
be up to 10 files open across 3-4 machines.
Dean
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:59:53 +1000, Stephen Black
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need a home Linux server to act as a
1. Proxy Server
2. Web Server (For Web development only)
3. Proxy Mail Server
5. Print Server (Needing a USB 2.0 ports)
6. File Server
7. IP Tables firewall
Does anybody have any ideas as what would make a good Linux server and
where such a computer could be obtained for a reasonable price?
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