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all of it cool as it may be i have to ask, cause i am a newb, what is it all for?
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How much was that sucker?
Servers..... the mercedes of PCs. In terms of setting them up, maintaining them, etc.
Can be, they tend to work for a long period of time then go jank and require a lot of attention then behave for another long period. This has been my experience anyway, seems like 6 months without problems is the limit.
Hard Drives suck... you find that quickly when you pound on them 24/7/365.
Dont say that! My servers been running without a hickup for a while now (A simple dual Xeon tho)
Run various services, there are a ton out there. I set some up just to toy with them.
Why in the world would you run RAID 3? You would be limited to the speed of one drive since the parity is not spread across all the disks (like RAID 5 is).
Throw VMWare Server on the box and run multiple operating systems. Test out different flavors of linux and toy around with services available to those.
You could also run a:
There are too many to list. I've done quite a few of the listed ones, but I'd like to get more experience with each. You may see an update to this thread once I get moved.
- Web server
- Database server
- Media backend
- FTP server
- SSH server
- Game server
- Rsync server
- WSUS server (Windows update server)
- Domain controller (Windows and Linux)
- RADIUS server (Wireless authentication, I hope to do this)
As long as the system is stable, I don't see why it wouldn't work. Regarding Windows as the host OS for software RAID, I have no idea. My only experience is with linux.
You don't even need a "use" for the server. I just meant you could play with it internally.