Despite being 13 years old, I use it as NAS with Unraid and works great. Not for computing of course, for that I have a HP EliteDesk Mini.
Just retired mine after a 12 year run. It was running XignaNas (formerly Nas4free) with zfs on 5 disks off an LSI logic card. I’ve replaced the fan and powersupply and upgraded the disks twice. I also have an iLO card in mine. Real workhorse of a machine.
Replaced it with Unraid last week with 30tb of disk on a Core i5 proc. Looking forward to being able to host some additional services (docker,VMs) that I couldn’t host on my microserver.
Yes, but all mine are off. For powersaving reasons.
Yes. I use a G7 N36L as an offsite-backup server in my second apartment. Works great with NetBSD and zfs, using rsnapshot to make remote backups every night.
Since it is only active for an hour and a half each night, it is my only server to put the disks into powersave mode the rest of the time. Computing eprformance is so low that I don’t even run a folding@home client. It usually cannot finish any work package before the deadline.
I’ve actually purchased one second-hand recently, and in the process of setting it up with some infrastructure! So far managed to set up ProxMox with Home Assistant OS running in aVM, and it works wonders. :)
I’m looking at modifying its specs a bit - currently the only place I can set it up in is a living room, and the PSU fan proves bit too loud, so I’ll be replacing it with a Noctua one; and for other noise-reducing means, SSD as the main operation drive, spin-down on idle set up for the regular HDDs, and a set of padded rubber “legs” to stand on to reduce vibrations. :)
In case anyone looks to put SSDs in their Reliant box, this 2.5" to 3.5" bracket aligns the SATA power and data into the same spots as on 3.5" drives, allowing you to put those smaller SSDs into Reliant’s drive brackets. :)
Yeah, I should get rid of it though. The OS hard drive is failing and the CPU is slow as shit. Just using it as a NAS at this point.
Been running one for 10 years, mostly as a NAS. Ran Openstack on it for a while, oVirt also. Currently just running KVM and an NFS server to keep it simple.
I do want to put one of the community firmwares on it. That way I can use an HDD in the optical bay in AHCI mode, but the tools only exist for Windows as far as I can tell.
Yes I am! I have xpenology on it, but I wish I used something different. That said, I don’t have too complex stiff on, I would have to upload all my data to b2, as I have no where else to put it to do an upgrade.
Most of it is media so it doesn’t need backups, but the photos and docs is what I would definitely need to move.
