[CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

Tue Jan 3 22:54:42 UTC 2023
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

OK I am seeing claims that the Proliant Gen8 is 25 - 40W.

More digging.

On 1/3/23 17:51, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 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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