Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a good place to get one? :)
Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross <david...@wcross.info> wrote: > HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-3GB drives. > Max out the memory and runs Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity to spare. > > Best regards, > > David > > On 21/06/2012, at 9:03 PM, Stephen Rees-Carter <step...@rees-carter.net> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My work has just given me $1,000 to spend on a new home server machine >> which I intend to run as a virtual machine host, either as 12.04 >> Virtualbox headless or ESXi. >> But the only hardware I've bought in the last 4 years has been two >> Lenovo laptops and a cheap Toshiba for my wife, so I'm a bit out of >> the loop for what's good/bad on the market in terms of desktops and >> home servers. >> >> So I was hoping that you guys could help me out... >> >> Since it's going to be a VM host, I'm after something with decent >> specs, lots of RAM, and multiple large disks. >> Also no wacky hardware that Ubuntu doesn't support. My budget is max $1,000. >> >> Can anyone recommend a brand/model or at least point me in the right >> direction? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> ~Stephen >> >> -- >> Stephen Rees-Carter ~ Valorin >> http://stephen.rees-carter.net/ >> >> -- >> ubuntu-au mailing list >> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- Stephen Rees-Carter ~ Valorin http://stephen.rees-carter.net/ -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
