[CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

Tue Jan 3 22:42:37 UTC 2023
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

Just search for a 2-disk 1U x86_64 (Intel or AMD) system that has room for 2
SATA drives (probably a pair 2.5" SSDs). Don't bother to search for RAID.

Probably something like these:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=1u+server+&iax=shopping&ia=shopping


At Tue, 3 Jan 2023 17:22:13 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> 
> And I am just coming up empty on my searches.
> 
> My search foo has been really off, it seems.
> 
> On 1/3/23 17:13, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Tue, 3 Jan 2023 16:55:40 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >
> >> Help?
> >>
> >> I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that:
> >>
> >> Has RAID1 internal (not an external USB RAID thing)
> >>       Can be software or hardware
> > All modern Linux kernels include software RAID out-of-the-box.  This means any
> > system that supports more than one disk that you can install Linux on
> > (including CentOS) can be set up with Linux software RAID.  If you want
> > hot-swap, there are various SATA hot-swap units than can be mounted in a ATX
> > case with front 5" or 3" spaces.  A modern ATX motherboard with a AHA SATA
> > controller will support Linux, including hot-swap SATA disks, including SATA
> > connected SSDs.
> >
> >> small (4TB/drive fine) and low power
> >>
> >> I plan to use it ONLY for email server.  perhaps iRedMail
> >>
> >> I have spent a lot of time looking and not finding any such piece of metal.
> >>
> >> All I find are NAS boxes with their own OS.
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> Bob (frustrated)
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