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47 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 15 Nov 24 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.665s | 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]▶

>>42160997 #

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 ◴[20 Nov 24 12:43 UTC] No.42193434[source]▶

>>42192121 #

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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telgareith ◴[20 Nov 24 13:43 UTC] No.42193876[source]▶

>>42193434 #

OOBM is a must have.

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1. Palomides ◴[20 Nov 24 14:12 UTC] No.42194069[source]▶

>>42193876 #

if you absolutely must, you can still buy standard form factor mobos from supermicro or asrock with a BMC and put them in a standard, quiet desktop case

Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components