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Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components

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45 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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mistyvales ◴[17 Nov 24 00:52 UTC] No.42160997[source]▶
I find a lot of 10 year old Dell PowerEdge servers for basically free these days, some loaded with 128gb+ RAM. They work perfectly well with TrueNAS, pfSense, or even more powerful stuff. If you dont need a thousand cores, I always suggest them to people. Otherwise they end up in the dump..
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ramon156 ◴[20 Nov 24 09:19 UTC] No.42192121[source]▶
Would love to know where, I want to convince friends they should get a home server, even if its just to use it as a NAS
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1. gh02t ◴[20 Nov 24 12:18 UTC] No.42193233[source]▶
Apart from eBay and specialized reseller websites you can actually find some good deals on used enterprise gear onAmazon through third party stores. I've bought a few different things and had excellent results universally. The real trick is just knowing what to search for, which servers or computers are popular in enterprise and on the end of their lifecycle. Dell, HP and Lenovo servers and mini PCs that are sold to enterprise and are a couple generations old are what to look for.