Asking price: Desktop as a "server"

[fireblazt]

Hi All,

Thinking to build a new PC but mostly will be used as a "server", need your info on the rough price.
These are the important specs:

CPU: Powerful one. i7 probably?
RAM: 16GB
Graphics: Can I do away with this? on-board maybe?
Storage: 2 SSD 500GB Raid 0
Hopefully comes with WIFI Adapter
Others like case, Motherboard are not that important.


Other note: Should be quiet because will place this in my bedroom

How much should I spare for this kind of setup?

 

[riotpatriot]

"server" to watch video in bedroom? or what

 

[Illusionist_85]

prawn farm?

 

[beemer]

Not advisable to use raid 0 for storage.

1 ssd gone, data all gone

 

[Kiwi8]

Juts saying 'server' is very vague. Please answer more questions that I about to ask.

1) how many expected users to access the server at the same time?

2) what type of server? File server? Video streaming server? Etc?

 

[SyncGuy]

Your questions are too generic.

Only thing I can tell you is, no need SSD as you'll be capped by 1Gbps Ethernet speed max, which is 125Mbps, which is almost all HDD max speed..

 

[wwenze]

Sequential vs random read

 

[Rashkae]

I'd recommend Ryzen for multithreading, standard HDD in RAID1 or 0+1. Do not rely on WiFi for connection

 

[keenklee]

file server is it ?

 

[QuantitativeNoob]

Normally server not quiet one leh. Anyway like wat the other bros say, do not get SSD. If your concern is speed, can try aim for Seagate Firecuda. Intel Core i7-7770 is definitely good enough. Should get abt 32gb of RAM too.

Hi All,

Thinking to build a new PC but mostly will be used as a "server", need your info on the rough price.
These are the important specs:

CPU: Powerful one. i7 probably?
RAM: 16GB
Graphics: Can I do away with this? on-board maybe?
Storage: 2 SSD 500GB Raid 0
Hopefully comes with WIFI Adapter
Others like case, Motherboard are not that important.


Other note: Should be quiet because will place this in my bedroom

How much should I spare for this kind of setup?

 

[-Synchronicity-]

Normally server not quiet one leh. Anyway like wat the other bros say, do not get SSD. If your concern is speed, can try aim for Seagate Firecuda. Intel Core i7-7770 is definitely good enough. Should get abt 32gb of RAM too.

Huh? Ssd is actually very ideal for large amount of read/write like for database servers soo.....I dont get why you would advise against ssd unless ts is gonna use it for overkill tasks like just hosting web server or something.

 

[riotpatriot]

RAID for SSD cannot all install at the same time i think. cos all write and wear at the same time, higher chance of 1 die 2 also die.

 

[-Synchronicity-]

RAID for SSD cannot all install at the same time i think. cos all write and wear at the same time, higher chance of 1 die 2 also die.

You are referring to raid 1 which mirrors every damn thing. However op is running raid 0.

Even for redundancy, can always choose to buy 3 ssd and run raid 5 instead as raid 5 merely copies the checksum parity.

 

[joshuaho]

Hijack a bit, new to this raid stuff

So is raid 5 a better option than raid 1? Using 3 SSD to do mirroring is better than 2ssd in mirror? More worthwhile to invest in a 3rd SSD?

You are referring to raid 1 which mirrors every damn thing. However op is running raid 0.

Even for redundancy, can always choose to buy 3 ssd and run raid 5 instead as raid 5 merely copies the checksum parity.

 

[haylui]

Get Ryzen if need multi-threading

 

[-Synchronicity-]

Hijack a bit, new to this raid stuff

So is raid 5 a better option than raid 1? Using 3 SSD to do mirroring is better than 2ssd in mirror? More worthwhile to invest in a 3rd SSD?

Depends. Most of the time, for home use, a backup solution makes more sense compared to raid. For ssd, only worthwhile option to look into personally is raid 0.

Using something like macrium reflect to image your c into d and your d into c makes more sense and it's more cost effective compared to running raid as raid means lesser space. Well at least for all other raids except for raid0.

For reference, raid 1 = mirroring. So u buy 2 ssd total space at the end of the day is still 500.

Raid 5 = 3 x 500 ssd. Total space is 750gb for 3 ssd.

 

[octacon]

I believe NAS can do most of what server can do , unless you are doing virtualization ( ya I bought a blade server for that) .

 

[joshuaho]

Alright thanks a lot! Will look into this macrium reflect software, seems like a more economic way

Depends. Most of the time, for home use, a backup solution makes more sense compared to raid. For ssd, only worthwhile option to look into personally is raid 0.

Using something like macrium reflect to image your c into d and your d into c makes more sense and it's more cost effective compared to running raid as raid means lesser space. Well at least for all other raids except for raid0.

For reference, raid 1 = mirroring. So u buy 2 ssd total space at the end of the day is still 500.

Raid 5 = 3 x 500 ssd. Total space is 750gb for 3 ssd.

 

[gld998]

Depends. Most of the time, for home use, a backup solution makes more sense compared to raid. For ssd, only worthwhile option to look into personally is raid 0.

Using something like macrium reflect to image your c into d and your d into c makes more sense and it's more cost effective compared to running raid as raid means lesser space. Well at least for all other raids except for raid0.

For reference, raid 1 = mirroring. So u buy 2 ssd total space at the end of the day is still 500.

Raid 5 = 3 x 500 ssd. Total space is 750gb for 3 ssd.

RAID 5 is 1TB for 3x500Gb hdd NOT 750Gb

 

[-Synchronicity-]

RAID 5 is 1TB for 3x500Gb hdd NOT 750Gb

Yep my bad. 1tb.