DriveCrash
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I have recently acquired by legal means, a dell poweredge t605 server. It's a bit on the aged side, but still plenty of power.
Specs:
dual quad core proc
20gb ram
Hotswap drives, power, cooling, etc etc
300gb sas 15k rpm main drives (raid 1)
2tb 10k storage drives (raid 1)
support for SAN/NAS/JBOD external storage (scsi/sas - no optical)
blah blah blah
So. I already have a 4tb file server for the house (simple NAS box I could wrap up into this server), and I'm mainly using this server as a test bed for windows server software. But when I'm not testing some program or windows configuration, what should I run this box as? Minecraft server? Remote compile server? hmmm
I would appreciate ideas for a purpose I'm overlooking, in order to justify the 40$ increase in the electric bill to my wife.
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On a sort of side note, what is your favorite version of linux for server application?
Specs:
dual quad core proc
20gb ram
Hotswap drives, power, cooling, etc etc
300gb sas 15k rpm main drives (raid 1)
2tb 10k storage drives (raid 1)
support for SAN/NAS/JBOD external storage (scsi/sas - no optical)
blah blah blah
So. I already have a 4tb file server for the house (simple NAS box I could wrap up into this server), and I'm mainly using this server as a test bed for windows server software. But when I'm not testing some program or windows configuration, what should I run this box as? Minecraft server? Remote compile server? hmmm
I would appreciate ideas for a purpose I'm overlooking, in order to justify the 40$ increase in the electric bill to my wife.
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On a sort of side note, what is your favorite version of linux for server application?