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mistyvales ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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Palomides ◴[] No.42193434[source]
99% of people will be better served by a single consumer PC instead of enterprise gear, don't convince them to buy a poweredge!
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1. zrail ◴[] No.42193920[source]
Yep. I am very satisfied with my do-almost-everything Lenovo M80S gen3. It came with an i7-12700 (12 core 20 thread) and I've dropped in 96GB memory, a 10gb network card, and an LSI HBA connected to a used SAS disk shelf.

It runs a dozen VMs and sits almost idle most of the time unless I'm experimenting with CPU LLMs. My one quibble is that it's small form factor and has limited PCIe lanes so installing a GPU is complicated.

The whole setup including the M80S, the disk shelf, an old Brocade network switch, a Unifi NVR, and 12 spinning rust disks uses about 200W total, which is about $30/month in electricity.