[ILUG] Barebones server

[Kevin Philp]

Yes - I have been using it as a proxy server as well. Two drives will be 
enough, no need for a CD. The old box was quite big and even as a bare 
box it occupies a fair bit of desk space.

Kevin.


Patrick O'Doherty wrote:
> Would NAS not provide the same functionality for you or are you using the debian install 
> to provide other services? If you want something small you could even look to Mini-ITX 
> hardware which is very small though you might not get as many drives into the box.
>
> Best of luck with it
>
> Patrick
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:43:47AM +0100, Kevin Philp wrote:
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>> I am thinking of getting a small barebones box to run some backups on -  
>> so very minimal requirements. The previous box was an old AMD K2-450 and  
>> worked fine for years just running a basic Debian setup - no GUI. For  
>> the new box I would like to put in a couple of sata disks to run as a  
>> raid array, basic Debian install again, no GUI. Any recommendations?  
>> Anything I should avoid?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Kevin.
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