Would a server like this be good?

[Patrick_Bateman]

I am looking for a home server, but I don't know if this would be any good for SAMBA and backup tasks.

 

[Patrick_Bateman]

Here is the link to the server type that I was thinking of: http://m.ebay.com/itm/DELL-PowerEdge-T110-Intel-Zeon-2-40GHz-Quad-Core-4GB-RAM-DDR3-TESTED-No-HDD-OS-/252727118703?nav=SEARCH

 

[thisguy365]

I actually own one of these and run window son it with 16GB of RAM, works well. The onboard RAID controller will support 4 drives in RAID. Should work pretty well for a samba/file server.

 

[Patrick_Bateman]

Would it be worth it to get hot swap 5.25 to 3.5 adapters and more RAM over buying a higher end server?

 

[thisguy365]

Would it be worth it to get hot swap 5.25 to 3.5 adapters and more RAM over buying a higher end server?

Do you need more than 4 3.5in drives?
For just files/holding backups 4gb is probably sufficient it uses DDR3 ECC UDIMM so you could pick up more rather inexpensively.

 

[Patrick_Bateman]

Ok thanks. I don't really want more drives, but rather the convenience of having hot swappable drives.

 

[Patrick_Bateman]

If I wanted to host game servers or run VM games, would the server be powerful enough to handle it?

 

[thisguy365]

If I wanted to host game servers or run VM games, would the server be powerful enough to handle it?

I suppose it would depend on the game. id recommend getting more ram for sure.
I run a MC server in a VM on mine(all windows though) and it runs fine. Though i never have more than 3-4 people on at any given time but im confident it could handle more.