[Rdo-list] Cheap, quiet hardware for a small RDO installation?

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:48:25PM +0000, Steven Hardy wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:39:03AM -0500, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm looking for ideas of mini PCs I can use for a small RDO cloud -
> > looking at maybe 3 shuttle PCs, each with "enough" disk (maybe 800GB
> > total storage) and RAM (8GB per PC enough?). Also, I'm wondering if 2
> > NICs is reasonable to ask for. My desired price point is *low* - all 3
> > for under $1000 would be ideal, failing that, as close to it as possible.
> 
> I've got an HP microserver (which have already been mentioned), and they're
> good if multiple drive bays is a requirement.  Not especially quiet with
> multiple disks in it though (depends on your definition of quiet).
> 
> Also the small form-factor desktops (I have a Dell Optiplex 7010) are good,
> they support up to 16G RAM, works well for a pre-built solution.
> 
> If I were doing this now though, I'd be tempted to look at the Intel NUC
> boxes - they can only take one internal disk but are quite cheap and can
> take up to 16G RAM in some models.  Very small too.

Exactly, was about to mention this one. /me was considering it:

    http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-d54250wyk.html

But, I'm looking for one that has the newest Intel processor (Atleast
"Haswell").
    

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/kashyap