I'm setting up a little server in my house I'm just

Help /g/ ?

>>60724367
What's the server going to be for? That will determine if those specs are any good.

Who quoted you uptime and number of reboots? Those are completely useless statistics.

>>60725329
I can see those stats in the IBM firmware

I'll use it as a Plex server (also for transcoding from h264 to h265) and maybe as a base for some offline backups

>>60725394
That's a 2009 Xeon with 4 actual cores (no Hyper-thread). You'd probably want more EEC RAM (it's super stupidly dirt cheap on eBay) but it should suffice just fine.

I have a pre-built Lenovo with a crappy i3 that's been everything froma file server to multiple game servers at once and has never had a hitch. Increase your stability by going with a stable linux distro like Debian. Mine gets rebooted like once a year for critical updates.

>>60725421
Thanks
Are you saying to only use Debian?
Because with xenserver I can menage more VM very easily

>>60725421
Btw, I'm in contact with a guy for 2x8gb ecc ram for 40€
Seems a good price

>>60725477
Didn't know what your level of technical skill or understanding was. A hypervisor would certainly be a good fit here. You will absolutely need more RAM.

I run a small onlinebusiness and i bought a used Dell Poweredge T310 for about 300€.

Bought it in 2014 it runs 24 hours since without any issues. It is used as Mailserver, inventory control software and general datastorage.

Would buy it again

>>60725623
Thanks

>>60724367
it's not bad - I'd look at an hp microserver though

>>60726024
I'll keep that in mind

Are those more specific for NAS storage?

>>60724367
It doesn't have 17k hours of uptime if you had to reboot it 84 times you moron

>>60726364
I meant power-on time :)

>>60726350
not as such, but they can make a good simple nas - they're just as they appear, general purpose servers for light office use, compact and low power use - the early ones (N40L etc.) are a but underpowered for today, but later gens are a good bit more beefy CPU wise

>>60724367
That's decent but i wouldn't personally buy a tower server, just in case you become a /homelab/ enthusiast and decide to get more. Better to get a 1u server or something and in the future invest in a proper rack

>>60727279
At the moment is impossible to mount a rack, so I'm more confortable with this kind of solution

>>60724367
Make sure you do NOT place this on the floor. It is practically a vacuum cleaner that will suck in all dust bunnies on the floor and turn the server into a candidate for the server horror pictures we occasionally see.

>>60730852
Thanks for the pratical tip.
Any suggestion where to put it?
I already have a "studio" for all the PC, switch and modem, is a shelf ok or is there a better place?

Air filters on the fans are an horrible solution?

>>60725394
Im using a e8400 for plex and it plays 265 fine so i would guess the xeon will do fine.

>>60725421
>stable linux distro like Debian
Which release? Im not OP but I have my file server running Debian 7 and its extremely stable. Im afraid of upgrading to newer versions due to systemd. Have you had any reliability issues with releases newer than 7?

>>60731368
Yeah, I did some test with other PC as Plex server but I discovered that my problem was a too limited lan bandwith insted of an old cpu.
The most of the time the file is shared and not encoded.

>>60727279
Can always just put the damn thing in the rack, would probably fit on its side just fine.