Suggestions

Hi All,

I am not sure if the list is dead or not or people are just hellabusy. 
In the hopes of stirring up some conversation I figured I would throw 
this out there.

I am looking to deploy OwnCloud at home.  Likely looking at a 2TB space 
as that is more then I have needed over the last couple years & I don't 
see that increasing anytime soon.  I was thinking of using CentOS as the 
base, more to get used to it & try to learn more of the RHEL environment.

I also see this acting as a domain controller, server, etc. for the 
house & my small business.  We are also trying to reduce our power 
footprint as well to lower utilities as well as potentially preparing 
for being off-grid & perhaps being reliant on solar or similar.

I have done some rough pricing out & it like for a system of 8 to 16 GB 
of RAM; an i5 or i7 processor & a 2TB disk the price for something off 
shelf or custom built is between 700 to 1000.  I have looked at 
desktops, laptops, mini-systems, etc.

Now as an alternative I have an old Dell OptiPlex 745 (I think) SFF 
desktop with a Core 2 Duo; 2GB of RAM (currently) & a 60GB HDD.  Looking 
at rough prices for a few hundred (2-300'ish) I can upgrade it to a 2TB 
drive & 8 GB of RAM.  I do also have a powered & non-powered 2TB 
external drive as well as an old DNS-323 NAS with mirrored 2 TB drives.

I am open to suggestions on if you think the OptiPlex solution is a good 
one for what I am doing right now & say the next few years or if I would 
be better plumping for one of the $700 to $1000 solutions.  If that 
route, what would be reasonable to invest in.

There....that should do it.  Hopefully it will stir up some 
conversation.  :-)

TekBudda

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