Cheap Boxen

zephyr1256 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 7:44 am Post subject: Cheap Boxen

I'm looking for a cheap box to use as a fileserver on my home network(nfs, ftp, remote access to home network). I've looked around a little and come up with this.

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Does anyone know of a site that can offer a comparable or better deal?

noff · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 7:53 am Post subject:

How much throughput do you want? A lot of times for like >$100 you can pick up a Pentium233 from a university and that may suit your needs.
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charlieg · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:25 am Post subject:

The only thing about that is that I'd want RAID of some form... you could buy a few extra HDs and set up software RAID on there.
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noff · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:52 am Post subject:

If you are just using it to serve mp3s and backups, you really don't need a lot of power. That is the main way of keeping down costs. That and not getting any extra components (sound card).
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idl · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:29 am Post subject:

My servers is a 233mhz with 64mb of RAM, *BSD flys on it! It runs NAT, Samba, firewall, ssh. You realy dont need a 1.7Ghz.
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zephyr1256 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 7:23 pm Post subject:

I just resolved some hardware issues(I was almost convinced it was ready for the scrap heap) on an old Pentium 2 266 box I have, so I will be able to use it, for free(practically, except for my time to set it up). It doesn't have a very big hard drive(6.2 GB), though, probably enough to back up essential stuff in .tbz2 format. Not good for something like mp3 storage, though. This will also be better because I won't have the CPU fan racket of a 1 Ghz+ machine.