Okay got another old hard issue.
These server are going to the dumpster soon too.
we got a bunch of these old servers with dual L5420's 2.5 ghz most have 32gigs of ram and 4 drive bays.
cant expand much more than that. Maybe add on a PCIe card for a SSD boot or something but not much more than that.
or I have the older Dell R310's I talked about in a different post. they have a 3430x and most only have about 16gb. some I got 24 gigs in them working. But that was pushing it.
the Dell R310's I can add up to 2 PCIe expansion cards. I'm looking to use for testing FreeNAS stuff. The primary function is really for a home Plex box.
Both boxes are USB 2.0 so installing the OS on a 16gb flash drive does limits the speed a little bit too.
I really don't see why I would need much more than this hardware for my home network plex box.
Right now I'm using a old desktop I have frankinstined with a 1 TB drive. and 2 SSDs
1 for boot and 1 for jails 8GB or ram.
And its running pretty ok. But I need something with just a little more storage and fail over.
These server are going to the dumpster soon too.
we got a bunch of these old servers with dual L5420's 2.5 ghz most have 32gigs of ram and 4 drive bays.
cant expand much more than that. Maybe add on a PCIe card for a SSD boot or something but not much more than that.
or I have the older Dell R310's I talked about in a different post. they have a 3430x and most only have about 16gb. some I got 24 gigs in them working. But that was pushing it.
the Dell R310's I can add up to 2 PCIe expansion cards. I'm looking to use for testing FreeNAS stuff. The primary function is really for a home Plex box.
Both boxes are USB 2.0 so installing the OS on a 16gb flash drive does limits the speed a little bit too.
I really don't see why I would need much more than this hardware for my home network plex box.
Right now I'm using a old desktop I have frankinstined with a 1 TB drive. and 2 SSDs
1 for boot and 1 for jails 8GB or ram.
And its running pretty ok. But I need something with just a little more storage and fail over.
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