[CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

Fri Jan 6 07:39:22 UTC 2023
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

Hi

> I have found a:
>
> HPE 873830-S01 ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
>
> for <$300 without drives.  If I can believe the seller, it has a AMD
> Opteron X3216 Dual-core (2 Core) 1.6GHz and 8GB Installed.
>
> It has 4 3.5" bays. and 1? "Media" bay?
>
> https://www.servertechsupply.com/873830-s01/
>
> this could well be acceptable.  Got to find out power draw.  Looks like
> ~40W.
>
> Any input on issues of OS install?  Do I go with separate OS and data
> RAID1 sets?

I usually do

[ 1(+n) RAID1 ]->[ LVM ]->[ XFS ]

then you can use LVM to manage different filesystems as required.

/boot and/or /boot/efi should be on its own RAID1 with old metadata
version but I'm not up to date about how the situation is exactly with
EL9.

Simon

>
> Also HPE is ClearOS.  I ran ClearOS6 for years before going with QNAP
> turnkey.  Perhaps current ClearOS is better, but it does not handle
> multi-domain email as I need.  Or it did not.  So I am going to install
> my own CentOS variant and iRedMail...
>
> thanks
>
>
> On 1/5/23 13:08, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 08:18:08AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> Proliant gen8 does NOT have UEFI.
>>>
>>> So I think this means I better move up to the gen10...
>>>
>>
>> I'm pleased with my Gen 10+ (Plus).  Pricer than I thought
>> you want.
>>
>> I like the "no power supply", just an external brick.
>> Quiet.  I put in a PCI card to use 2 NVMe sticks, one for
>> system and one for /home.  You can also boot from an internal
>> usb port like a thumb drive permanently installed.
>>
>> Carriers for 2.5inch SSD drives work fine so with few fans,
>> no drive motors, could be quite low power.
>>
>> Mine acts as email server, local caching DNS server (dnsmasq)
>> and Amanda backup server.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>
>
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