- Jan 4, 2013
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I'm looking to build an ownCloud server as using Dropbox has become too costly. I've looked at other solutions, and while building my own will be a big initial investment, the long-term costs of having it hosted elsewhere will end up costing more in the end.
I'd like the enclosure to be as small as possible. At most i'd want is four 2.5" drives in RAID 10. I was considering the WD Black 750GB. That would give me 1.5TB of storage to be shared between the OS and Data partition.
Most of the data shared will be documents and images. My ISP provides 30Mbps down and 5Mbps up. Should be sufficient for these types of files.
I'm debating if running ESXi as a host and creating two VM's (One for Apache/PHP & ownCloud and one for MySQL database) or if keeping it all on a physical layer would be better. Obviously running VMs will require more resources (CPU and RAM).
If hosting it on a physical, I'm guessing a dual-core with 8GB would be more than sufficient. However, if doing the VM setup, I'd prefer a quad-core with 16-24GB. I rather not have to use swap files on disk. Memory is cheap anyway.
Brands I like and would want recommend: ASUS, Antec, Intel, Western Digital.
This 'server' would be headless.
I prefer if the mobo would have dual gigabit NICs. One for management and one for accessing it over http/https. I found two ASUS models, Q87T/CSM and Q87M-E/CSM
Purchase through Amazon or NewEgg.
Budget besides the hard drives: $500-$750
I'd like the enclosure to be as small as possible. At most i'd want is four 2.5" drives in RAID 10. I was considering the WD Black 750GB. That would give me 1.5TB of storage to be shared between the OS and Data partition.
Most of the data shared will be documents and images. My ISP provides 30Mbps down and 5Mbps up. Should be sufficient for these types of files.
I'm debating if running ESXi as a host and creating two VM's (One for Apache/PHP & ownCloud and one for MySQL database) or if keeping it all on a physical layer would be better. Obviously running VMs will require more resources (CPU and RAM).
If hosting it on a physical, I'm guessing a dual-core with 8GB would be more than sufficient. However, if doing the VM setup, I'd prefer a quad-core with 16-24GB. I rather not have to use swap files on disk. Memory is cheap anyway.
Brands I like and would want recommend: ASUS, Antec, Intel, Western Digital.
This 'server' would be headless.
I prefer if the mobo would have dual gigabit NICs. One for management and one for accessing it over http/https. I found two ASUS models, Q87T/CSM and Q87M-E/CSM
Purchase through Amazon or NewEgg.
Budget besides the hard drives: $500-$750
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