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Limp Gawd
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I'm looking to create a relatively inexpensive yet reliable storage solution.
I have 4 x SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drives that I ordered back in December of 2010 and never used. I know I'm an idiot for waiting this long to build my storage solution which is why I'm looking to just go ahead and do it inexpensively. I realize these drives have very well lost most of their useful life even just sitting there unused. To make matters worse they were all bought on the same day from the same location, so more likely to fail together. I just don't want that $320 to go to waste.
What do you guys think of those Dell cloud server dual xeon systems being sold on ebay? I see them sold for between $150 - $200. Includes a 1U rack mount enclosure with 2 Xeon processors, 16GB of ECC ram and seems like all I need to get going. Any thoughts on this? What should I install the OS on? Should I put it on one of the drives? I was initially thinking I'd use an SSD or an SD card or something for the OS and just use the hard drives for my array. But not sure what to do in this case.
Thanks.
I have 4 x SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drives that I ordered back in December of 2010 and never used. I know I'm an idiot for waiting this long to build my storage solution which is why I'm looking to just go ahead and do it inexpensively. I realize these drives have very well lost most of their useful life even just sitting there unused. To make matters worse they were all bought on the same day from the same location, so more likely to fail together. I just don't want that $320 to go to waste.
What do you guys think of those Dell cloud server dual xeon systems being sold on ebay? I see them sold for between $150 - $200. Includes a 1U rack mount enclosure with 2 Xeon processors, 16GB of ECC ram and seems like all I need to get going. Any thoughts on this? What should I install the OS on? Should I put it on one of the drives? I was initially thinking I'd use an SSD or an SD card or something for the OS and just use the hard drives for my array. But not sure what to do in this case.
Thanks.