Good Day read forum members,
I am new herel found this amazing forum on google. Lots of smart people here and need your help. My place of work finally approved my Licence for 50 users on metalogix archive store to archive emails from exchange.
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Now since I am on a very tight budget I need help here. I can spend max $1000 for the server build. Either use some used or all new combination when it comes to parts.
Do I need ECC RAM? Do I need XEON CPU? Do I need Enterprise hard drives? Do I need redundant power supplies. All very hard questions to answer in my mind.
Min 16GB Ram
Min 1TB Storage Raid 1 or Raid10 Preffered
I was looking at some single xeon cpus and Tyan motherboard for rock stable system. I am also having hard time choosing hard drives here. Since ill be using raid 10 do I really need Enterprise drives. My personal experience with WD green is been horrible, then Segeate regular non enterprise also very bad. I see lots of good things about on Hitachi hard drives on these forums.
Can you guys provide feedback on this part selection. I am in Canada and a lot of the Dell outlet and ebay dont ship here or shipping kills of the deal. Maybe a 4 Core Xeon, 16GB ram, motherboard, case.
1x Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 69W Quad-Core Server Processor BX80637E31230V2
$239.99
1x X9SCM-iiF LGA 1155 Intel C204 Micro ATX Intel Xeon E3 Server Motherboard
$204.99
RAM
Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory Model KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G $142.99
NORCO RPC-230 2U Rackmount Server Case 1 External 5.25" Drive Bays - OEM Cute little case, fits 4 internal 3.5 drives, matx.
Western Digital WD RE4 WD1003FBYX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Enterprise Hard Drive -Bare Drive x4 $129.99 for my Raid10.
End of story? or can I do better?
Cheers
-AA
I am new herel found this amazing forum on google. Lots of smart people here and need your help. My place of work finally approved my Licence for 50 users on metalogix archive store to archive emails from exchange.
Microsoft Exchange Email Archiving Solution
Now since I am on a very tight budget I need help here. I can spend max $1000 for the server build. Either use some used or all new combination when it comes to parts.
Do I need ECC RAM? Do I need XEON CPU? Do I need Enterprise hard drives? Do I need redundant power supplies. All very hard questions to answer in my mind.
Min 16GB Ram
Min 1TB Storage Raid 1 or Raid10 Preffered
I was looking at some single xeon cpus and Tyan motherboard for rock stable system. I am also having hard time choosing hard drives here. Since ill be using raid 10 do I really need Enterprise drives. My personal experience with WD green is been horrible, then Segeate regular non enterprise also very bad. I see lots of good things about on Hitachi hard drives on these forums.
Can you guys provide feedback on this part selection. I am in Canada and a lot of the Dell outlet and ebay dont ship here or shipping kills of the deal. Maybe a 4 Core Xeon, 16GB ram, motherboard, case.
1x Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 69W Quad-Core Server Processor BX80637E31230V2
$239.99
1x X9SCM-iiF LGA 1155 Intel C204 Micro ATX Intel Xeon E3 Server Motherboard
$204.99
RAM
Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory Model KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G $142.99
NORCO RPC-230 2U Rackmount Server Case 1 External 5.25" Drive Bays - OEM Cute little case, fits 4 internal 3.5 drives, matx.
Western Digital WD RE4 WD1003FBYX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Enterprise Hard Drive -Bare Drive x4 $129.99 for my Raid10.
End of story? or can I do better?
Cheers
-AA
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