[LUNI] In search of a server

[Donald Benesch]

Larry,
Check with TigerDirect, I see that they have bare bones systems and parts on the cheap side. They are in Naperville however, and do collect tax.
Don

Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote: My home server is dying.  Specifically, the hard drive is developing bad 
sectors, always in my mail archive (where else?), and I'm fairly sure the 
rest of the system is too old to even cope with a new, large hard drive.  So 
I am now in the market on short notice for a new home server.

"Home server" in this case means something that handles email, Jabber, DNS, 
minor web stuff, etc. for a user base of generally no more than, uh, 2. :-)  
The only really strenuous thing it ever does handle a 2 GB mail archive over 
IMAP.  Other than that, it's really just a glorified file server.

Does anyone have a favorite source for such a contraption for a low price?  
I'm open to building my own (I do that all the time), or buying pre-made, or 
a decent gently-used box.  I don't know if I want to bother with RAID or not, 
as I'd be interested more in reliability than in performance increases.  
Brands aren't really important, although reliability and expandability of the 
case is.  Quiet is, since it will be sitting in my living room.  I'm thinking 
1 GHz+, 512 MB RAM, and 200+ GB storage, and trying to keep the cost in the 
$300-$400 range if I can.  No Windows Tax if I can avoid it.

Any recommendations for where to find such a system, or parts for it, or 
someone with such a system they want to offload to a good home? :-)  Is the 
price range I'm looking for too low for this task?

TIA and such.

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