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Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components

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47 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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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Palomides ◴[20 Nov 24 12:43 UTC] 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. linsomniac ◴[20 Nov 24 14:49 UTC] No.42194365[source]▶
Especially if they want to run it for a desktop use. Decades ago I was running a small data center operation and would sell our old servers into the local Linux community. Had a guy buy one and then bring it back, dissatisfied with the graphics performance. "Like, whatddya mean, it runs the serial console at 19.2k..."