Hey Guys,
I used to be really involved in hardware and be extremely aware of what was out there on the market, but these days my focus is more on programming and web apps. Anyhow, I've recently upgraded my home network to 10GBe and would like to push together an Unraid box for my local storage / client data back-ups. I've been following the TinyMiniMicro posts on STH, but sadly, pretty much all of these units are so small that they lack any expansion.
I'm looking to take an 'olderish' SFF PC with a reasonably low power footprint (CPU) and put it into an older 2U server chassis, but I would need something large enough that I can add a PCI-E raid card and a PCI-E 10GBe adapter. I beleive there was a period in SFF PC's (from HP/Dell/Lenovo) that were starting to use the MiniITX form factor, and still held a few expansion slots, but hadn't gotten to the Nano standad that we are seeing today; I guess that's what I'm looking for recommendations on -- As small as possible, with reasonable'ish CPU (stuff that is generally available in offlease business hardware on the cheap).
Suggestions ?
I used to be really involved in hardware and be extremely aware of what was out there on the market, but these days my focus is more on programming and web apps. Anyhow, I've recently upgraded my home network to 10GBe and would like to push together an Unraid box for my local storage / client data back-ups. I've been following the TinyMiniMicro posts on STH, but sadly, pretty much all of these units are so small that they lack any expansion.
I'm looking to take an 'olderish' SFF PC with a reasonably low power footprint (CPU) and put it into an older 2U server chassis, but I would need something large enough that I can add a PCI-E raid card and a PCI-E 10GBe adapter. I beleive there was a period in SFF PC's (from HP/Dell/Lenovo) that were starting to use the MiniITX form factor, and still held a few expansion slots, but hadn't gotten to the Nano standad that we are seeing today; I guess that's what I'm looking for recommendations on -- As small as possible, with reasonable'ish CPU (stuff that is generally available in offlease business hardware on the cheap).
Suggestions ?