Hello,
I am looking for some advice on a HP server. I currently get a a nice discount (40%) where I work for HP equipment. I would like to purchase a good at home server for 3 purposes.
1) I need a virtual lab for testing ESX or Hyper-V, and would like something more than VMware workstation.
2) I need to store family data somewhere safe with some type of raid RAID (figured VM).
3) I also would like to stream TV and movies from the server to my TV (also VM). I already have a WDTV box for streaming.
Of course price is an issue, and I'm not 100% convinced I'm not just buying a large workstation called a server. Unless the server only supports 1 CPU is it worth looking at? Even after the HP purchase I will still need to add memory and disk. I will go with LF SATA as thats the cheapest. I was hoping to use RAID 10 with 4 drives possibly. Probably max out memory with non ECC.
The price I was hoping to stick too was betweek 500 and 800 before discount 40%. In the end though I'm not 100% convinced that I am saving money by not just building a nice desktop off of newegg for almost the same price.
Here is what I was orginally looking at.
http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTE...jt&CatalogCategoryID=LPoQ7EN6gasAAAEuIjMgPjqg
Thanks for any advice or help in advance.
I am looking for some advice on a HP server. I currently get a a nice discount (40%) where I work for HP equipment. I would like to purchase a good at home server for 3 purposes.
1) I need a virtual lab for testing ESX or Hyper-V, and would like something more than VMware workstation.
2) I need to store family data somewhere safe with some type of raid RAID (figured VM).
3) I also would like to stream TV and movies from the server to my TV (also VM). I already have a WDTV box for streaming.
Of course price is an issue, and I'm not 100% convinced I'm not just buying a large workstation called a server. Unless the server only supports 1 CPU is it worth looking at? Even after the HP purchase I will still need to add memory and disk. I will go with LF SATA as thats the cheapest. I was hoping to use RAID 10 with 4 drives possibly. Probably max out memory with non ECC.
The price I was hoping to stick too was betweek 500 and 800 before discount 40%. In the end though I'm not 100% convinced that I am saving money by not just building a nice desktop off of newegg for almost the same price.
Here is what I was orginally looking at.
http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTE...jt&CatalogCategoryID=LPoQ7EN6gasAAAEuIjMgPjqg
Thanks for any advice or help in advance.