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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >