My student-corporation is in dire need of a new FTP-Server and seeing as I'm in charge of IT, I'm allowed to build a new one.
While I've build several PC's before, I've never actually build a server and I am a complete beginner when it comes to Linux so I'm not sure whether or not the parts I had in mind are the optimal choice. To give you an idea of the situation:
- Our university pays for the power bill so I don't care about how much it pulls from the wall.
- Nobody will care if it makes a lot of noise.
- Our current FTP-server has no GUI and there is no certainty that my successor will actually know how to work with just an SSH-terminal. So a GUI might have to be installed in the next 2-3 years.
- It's sole purpose is file-storage for about 20 users.
- The largest files it has to handle are about 150mb.
- If you have any more questions, feel free to ask and I'll respond asap.
- Our ISP is our university and we have about 130mb/s down and 100mb/s up.
- There's currently only about 80gb of data on our server.
- I doubt I'll be allowed to spent more than 500 euros.
The parts I would use:
- APU: AMD A10-6800K
- Cooler: Cooler Master 212 Evo
- MoBo: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H
- RAM: 2x4GB Geil Dragon 1600Mhz
- PSU: Corsair C430M
- HDD: 2x Seagate barracuda 1TB's in RAID 1 (or maybe RAID 10)
- Case: Aerocool Qs-200 Lite
- Fans: 2x Arctic cooling F12
I might throw in a Samsung SH-224DB to prevent any issues that might occur while using a usb dvd writer.
Any suggestions, things I should keep in mind, parts that I should (re)consider, etc. ?