Choose hardware for a Linux home server?

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Miakhil Dinchenko2013-12-02 06:29:22

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Miakhil Dinchenko, 2013-12-02 06:29:22

I am assembling a home server, I plan to install fedora 19, under it in virtual machines will be CentOS
Please advise which processor and motherboard to take for maximum performance.
Does it make sense to take an SSD?

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Masterme, 2013-12-02
@Masterme

Take all the most expensive

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trueClearThinker, 2013-12-02
@trueClearThinker

HP Microserver

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polyakstar, 2013-12-02
@polyakstar

IBM zBC12 - entry-level solution for enterprise computing, I think, just the maximum performance for a home server

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Alexander Alexandrovich, 2013-12-02
@tatu

Barebones.
SSD for home server - I think it's not worth it, better save money.

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Nathan Stark, 2013-12-02
@MattLe

If you need maximum performance, then you only need to take an SSD and raid it

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Alexander Fedorov, 2014-04-09
@Pagliaccio

A home server most often implies low loads (file storage, media server, router, etc.), so there is no point in chasing top-end processors and boards - they will only burn money and electricity.
For a server on which virtual machines will be installed, the most important thing is RAM. Here it has to be washed away to the maximum that the board holds.
SSD for the server - only if there is a powerful thresher of bulk data, otherwise the HDD is enough - everything will rest on the network bandwidth (and the HDD works out the speed up to gigabit).
As indicated above, HP Microserver is very well suited for such tasks (entry-level server hardware in a compact and economical case + a basket for 4 HDDs).