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Originally Posted by ~Ray
Nice.. How much was that setup?
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About 650 euro wihout counting the 8 x 2 TB HDs because I already had them waiting for a place to live. Was about to get a Proavio EB8 or an Areca ARC-5040 box, but after some tests the HP microservers gave much better performance and they are a real PC, so they have some extra advantages over a simple file drop box.
The Kingston pendrives you see there, I installed Linux on them and plugged them to the internal USB port on each server. That way I have a full blown linux powered server with 8 TB of storage while the OS is stored on an USB pendrive.
The CPU is a bit weak for processing tasks, but for storage and data transfer it does a really good job. I am able to saturate the 1 Gbps network card the machine has on sustained disk writing speed of 105 MB/sec.
Still have not tried to use one of these directly as storage for the video processing workstations, but I think it will work ok.
The boxes are really quiet. Just perfect if you are editing video and/or don't like noisy computers.