Good afternoon guys,
What is your go to COTS server for building a small/medium sized NVR? I can't seem to find any Workstations that will accept multiple 3.5" drives on the front.
I'm trying to find the perfect sweet spot that will provide the following:
- Enough processing/Ram power to act as the surveillance host (I know that most VMS's don't require major high end server processing power, it's the client that draws more resources).
- Preferably a backplane with space for at least 8 3.5" drives.
- Hardware Raid 5/preferably 6.
- Support for windows 7ProX64 (most servers only natively support server OS's)
- Keeping price down.
I currently use HP DL380 Gen9 servers, but the price is a bit steep and makes the whole system a harder sell.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!