Hi,
Good to hear, glad to help.

For the Backup, have a look at http://www.backupassist.com/index.html it works well, especially with imaging to multiple USB drives.


>I finally got up and running a server with your specs and it is very pleasing. Silent and fast, running Windows Server 2008 from a copy of MSDN won at a conference, All in all a very good deal. Thank you.
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>>Hi,
>> Please find listed below the component list that I use for a Entry Level Server that works.
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>> As far as redundant PSU's are concerned I have given away using them as I have had only 1 failure in the past 5 years. I find that if you sit the server behind a decent sine wave filtering UPS you don't get failures.
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>>Any way, just order a replacement PSU when you order the case, and just replace it if it fails, takes about 10 mins.
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>>Manuf. Part # Qty Description
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>>BX80569X3370 1 Intel Xeon Quad Core X3370 3.0 Ghz CPU
>>S3210SHLX 1 Intel S3210SHLX Server Motherboard
>>KVR800D2E5K2/4G 2 Kingston 4GB 800 MHZ DDR3 ECC CL5 DIMM
>>ST3500320AS 2 Seagate CUDA 7200.11 500GB SATA 32MB Cache
>>AD7200S0B 1 Sony DVD BURNER SATA 20x Internal
>>SC5299UP 1 Intel Server Chassis
>>AP3RACKIT 1 Rack Conversion Kit for SC5299UP
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>>>Thank you very much Neil. Please tell me more about what components you might specify today. Single processor, not extremely demanding applications for now, mostly file sharing, two disks to start, more eventually. Perhaps redundant power supply. Maintainability in Panama, which means standard parts.
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>>>Can this system be mounted sideways in a rack? I am looking for space efficiency and neatness.
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>>>TIA,
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>>>Alex
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>>>>Hi,
>>>> Have a look at the intel products, http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/products/server?iid=prod+prod_server
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>>>> Al's comments about noise in the 1 & 2 RU units is correct, I use the SC5XXX series for this same reason.
>>>> We have an IBM x306 1RU unit, man is it noisy, we have had to put it in the store room.
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>>>> I have given up on HP & Dell, they are problematic, whereas Intel stuff just keeps going & going & going.
>>>> I recently retired an old Intel Box that was running Netware, it had only been offline during extended blackouts, maybe 5 times in 10 years.
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>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>I am loooking to buy a rack mounted server for home network, for personal use, development work and backup of work files. Would appreciate recommendations.
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>>>>>TIA,
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>>>>>Alex