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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: 0s | 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. linsomniac ◴[20 Nov 24 14:45 UTC] No.42194320[source]▶
I got 3x Dell R720 2U servers off ebay a year or so ago, they were $300-ish landed. Dual 6 core CPUs, 256GB RAM, no drives. I got 2 of them for work for our dev/stg cluster, and the price was so good I decided to get one to set up a homelab.