So I've been pondering building a quiet, low power rig to act as a home sever/folding rig for a little while. Here's what I've come up with specs wise thus far: Case (got a spare one I can use) AMD A-10-6800K Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-D3H or similar 8 GB 1866 RAM Corsair Builder Series 430 W PSU (maybe a bit bigger, budget permitting. 3 x 1 (or maybe 2) TB drives in RAID 5. Any thoughts/better ideas? Ta BLEH!
What about a HP Microserver? Ridiculously popular due to the price, I have 3 of them. Under £100 brand new and can easily take 5 drives. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=339856 http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-...after-cashback-free-next-day-delivery-1564617 £97.94 after cashback, that's the new one clocked at 2.2ghz, I have the old ones at 1.3 and 1.5ghz, work well as a NAS, so that one with a fair speed increase should be even better. I can't see anything close for the price, a decent 4 bay NAS is £500+.
Possibly, but a full PC can be used for folding/gaming/browsing etc, be lower power than my main rig anyway.
I don't think it would be a "server" if you plan to play games and browse internet on it. If you after casual machine, it's great build. However, I won't expect it to be a good folding machine.
I did a build with the 5800k for file server/backup/lan with friend over kind of use. It's folding PPD isn't so good but for everything else its really good and quiet. For ram i just used 1600MHz ram i already had sitting around for 3 years and got lucky being able to overclock to 2133MHz. My only complaint is the temp readings it gives are total BS.
The main idea being to dump all my noisy mechanical drives into another room, trying to quiet my main rig down as much as I can, plus RAID for backup. This is what I'm after effectively.