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There are a lot of things that are fun to lab. Email is not one of them, seriously— leave this to a cloud provider.
The day Exchange stopped being one of the things I had to manage was a good day indeed 😅
There are a lot of things that are fun to lab. Email is not one of them, seriously— leave this to a cloud provider.
The day Exchange stopped being one of the things I had to manage was a good day indeed 😅
$2000 - 45 Drives HL15 case, motherboard, etc
$2000 - 6x22 TB WD Red (or whatever size you can get after black friday)
$1000 - 5x4 TB SATA SSD of your choosing
132 TB of HDD storage (raw) + 20TB of SSD storage (raw) delivered over SFP or 10GBe
How fast is fast? SSD fast? 7200RPM HDD fast? Whats your use case? You (generally) get to pick two.
Is a dual cpu mobo worthwhile for a homelab server
9 times out of 10, no.
In a world where a couple cheap NUC/Mini PCs loaded to the gills with 64 GB of RAM each is more than enough for a lab, dual processor builds are mostly for bragging rights and folks who don’t have to contribute to the power bill 🥵
I don’t know that I’d take on tape with your use case. There’s a good bit of tech debt involved there.
NAS (either bought or built) + Amazon glacier or Backblaze for cloud archival backup.
The NAS (including drives) will probably cost you $7000-8000 USD for 400ish TB of storage with room to grow
It was easy to give clients access to old data directly if they needed, etc.
I hope you charge for this. It would help to offset your storage costs.