[CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

Tue Jan 3 22:51:09 UTC 2023
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Well what I am finding looks like it will be in the +80W range and I am 
trying to use less electricity.  I would put up with 40W, including drives.

ITX board most likely?

And will I end up needing 3 drives or does mirroring the OS partition work.

On 1/3/23 17:42, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> Look at HP Microserver line... it's as close as you're going to get.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 5:22 PM 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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