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Suggestions for Small Office File Server Build

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October 16, 2014 10:40:03 AM

Hi all,

I'm out of date on the current hardware available, so I'm looking for suggestions on components for a file server build for a small office. Here are the items on my shopping list:

Dual Power Supplies (hot swap not required)
Case
Motherboard (need RAID support, gigabit nic)
CPU
RAM
3 or 4tb hard drives (qty 2 in RAID 1)
CD/DVDR
Backup Power (UPS)

I am thinking of using a virtual machine with Windows 7 as both the guest and host OS. This office is well under the 10 connection limit of Win7 and will remain so for the foreseeable future and has no interest in centralized user management of a Windows domain.

I'm open to purchasing an off the shelf system, but I've found in the past that as soon as you want something like redundant power supplies, prices go through the roof. But like I said, I'm pretty out of date, so maybe that has changed.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated. Have I forgotten anything?

Thanks,
Evan

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