Silent, Durable Media For Servers?

Aldurn asks: "Recently, I've come into a living situation where having my rather loud computer continuously running is distinctly suboptimal. In order to maintain my current email address and webserver, in addition to running a decent set of iptables rules for the house, I decided to buy a Mini-ITX-based server. Currently, /dev/hda is running on a CompactFlash card, but I realize that this probably isn't the best thing to do when running a mail server, due to limitations of the media with regards to the number of writes possible over the lifetime of the media. I'm looking to add another storage medium to the device for /var in order to maintain the logs, as well as for mail storage and other bits that like to live in that directory. The media doesn't have to be terribly large (preferably at least 64 MB), and can be connected through IDE, USB, the floppy connector, or through the network. The end goal of this exercise is simply to prevent my poor CF card from dying an early death from continuous writes. What do you suggest for such a situation?"

Comments

Email is important -- you want redundancy

[mithras the prophet]

Because you presumably don't want your email to be stored in just one place, I'd suggest a quiet (?), cheap RAID setup like this one

You might especially look in to this variation... ;)