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I just bought a HPE PROLIANT ML310e GEN 8 V2 SERVER<\/a><\/strong> on TradeMe for 458$. Unfortunately I bought it Christmas Eve so I’ll need to wait until early New Year before it arrives. It does not have any Hard Drives or Operating System, so this is going to be a learning project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason for this purchase is that my NAS (Network Access Storage) WD MyCloud is being particularly difficult at the moment. I Synced a few folders and suddenly I’ve used up 3.2 of 3.9 TB of disk space, so its very sluggish. Also connecting to it has been very difficult and I’ve spent a whole day trying to connect to it from a couple of PC’s and its SLOW!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I lost a bit of data from a Hard Drive about 6 months ago that I connected to my PC’s, not a solid state one, so I’m a bit peeved with that, as there were a lot of photos that I think I’ve lost. So have become a bit more aware of loosing data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud storage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It is tempting to just purchase some cloud storage, or run servers on AWS or Google but thats just an on-going cost and you have to watch it when the Cloud services start chewing up money, you only finmd out at the end of the month when the bill arrives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve got a VPS in Germany and that costs me about $30NZ\/month so about $360\/year. Its an ongoing cost. Its convenient, but I feel I should take the next step and try running my own local server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another NAS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I did initially look at another NAS, but I’ve been there, done that and the specs are pretty rubbish for the cheaper ones. Also, like the servers, you purchase the box and then add your Hard Drives to it. So price of box & then price of Hard Drive Storage. Also for the price of the used server you get pretty low specs, as in a couple of gigs RAM and slow chips and specific hardware that you have to work with and through, compared to something that can be expanded and you can use different OS’s and software on for the Servers, as well as using Virtual Machines to run other instances on the same machine. The spec for the above server is 24 Gig RAM, so in a different league to the NAS in the same price range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This does require a lot more maintenance but with that you get flexability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Server<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The HPE PROLIANT ML310e GEN 8 V2 SERVER<\/strong> was the bees knees in 2014 and has a has an Intel Xeon E3-1220v3 (3.1 GHz\/4-core\/8MB\/80 W) 4 core Chip as well as a Graphics card, so a lot more features than a NAS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n