From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 08:38:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77DBFA55 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from miucha.iecc.com (abusenet-1-pt.tunnel.tserv4.nyc4.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f06:1126::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "miucha.iecc.com", Issuer "StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 068965F4 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13825 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2014 08:37:58 -0000 Received: from miucha.iecc.com (64.57.183.18) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 13 Nov 2014 08:37:58 -0000 Date: 13 Nov 2014 08:37:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20141113083736.7746.qmail@ary.lan> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small/Low Power Server Recommendation? In-Reply-To: <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan> Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Cc: jcigar@ulb.ac.be X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:38:00 -0000 In article <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan> you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:57:02AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: >> I am looking to replace a huge noisy old server that I have used for years >> for my home business. Looking for something inexpensive and relatively >> small to replace it with. Any recommendations guys/gals? I bought a mini PC from these guys: http://www.mini-box.com/MiniPC-Value-Systems With a 60GB SSD and a reasonable amount of RAM (4GB? I'm on the other side of the country and can't look) it was about $250. Internally it's a normal PC, plug in an Ethernet cable, boot the FreeBSD installer from a USB stick and off you go. It's fanless, small, silent, and reliable. I use it for the usual home server stuff. I had some 1 GB disk drives lying around so I bought a four drive ESATA case and a PCI ESATA adapter card, and have a 3GB ZFS RAID. I looked at Soekris but this was cheaper and required no kludgery to set up since it has a normal screen adapter and USB for the keyboard. R's, John