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looks at old Thinkpad and raspi
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You can get old servers on eBay for surprisingly little money, like this PowerEdge T410 for $200. Add some drives, install TrueNAS SCALE and you've got a good home server platform.
Also a space heater for the winter and some white noise so you can sleep better!
Isn't that a bit like buying an old truck instead of a year old Miata?
Afaik those CPUs use so much juice when idling ... sure, you dont get all them lanes or ECC, but a PC at the same price with a few year old CPU outclasses that CPU by a lot & at a fraction of the running cost (also quietly).
Just something to keep in mind as an alternative, especially when you don't intend to fill all the pcie bussy (several users with several intensive tasks that benefit from wider bus to RAM & PCI even with a slow CPU).
Ok, and you miss out on some fancy admin stuff, but ... it's just for home use ...
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I have a ThinkServer with a similar Xeon, running proxmox -> Debian, so I was looking like "huh, interesting" until I saw the internals.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck all that. Damn it Dell, quit your weird bullshit. It's just a motherboard, cpu, cooler, and ram. Slap in intake and exhaust fans. Figure it the fuck out.
E: and it better have a goddamn standard psu, too. Fuck yourself, Dell. I've seen your shit.
The one saving grace is that their one-off custom damn shit always feels well designed, and they move a lotta units (which helps with repairs when everything is GD custom). Dunno if that's changed in recent years.
With that said I avoid them for personal use usually for the same reason, why have a desktop if you don't get the benefit of parts compatibility?!
Hmm, I don't have direct experience with ThinkServers, but what I see on eBay looks like standard ATX hardware... which is not really what you want in a server.
The Dell motherboard has dual CPU sockets and 8 RAM slots. The PSUs are not the common ATX desktop format because there are 2 of them and they are hot swappable. This is basically a rack server repacked into a desktop tower case, not an ATX desktop with a server CPU socket.
Hey, are you me?
Hey! What Thinkpad do you use?
I use a W520.
Are you supposed to only have one thinkpad and one thinkcentre??
I would just a thinkpad running tent-style
E580. Not even a "real" Thinkpad.
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I hate this meme and yes absolutely
Is it really a midlife crisis when you're just buying the toys you ways wanted because you can finally afford it?
I built a ridiculous computer with RGB everything a few months back... It's dumb as hell but I always wanted one and at this point why not?
It's not a midlife crisis!
I actually desperately need this, my current server's just not specced right for the 2 dozen VM's I still want to add.
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Mid-life crisis? I'm in my mid-20s!
Who's gonna tell him?
Why not both? My homelab supports car related activities.
Probably why I don't have the Porsche though.
I went the route of modest homelab with some mini PCs/Pis/NAS, and a decidedly not modest sim racing rig.
I like to say that for my midlife crisis I bought all the cars. I'm very funny.
That's not mid-life, that's entire-life.
makes same sound
Gento fans go brrrrr
The more you're willing to do yourself, the cheaper the car gets.
It's basically a hobby meant for sysadmins and they don't even realize it!
Me who finds really cheap eBay hardware:
at least a home lab can do things. people who's entire social life and personality are dedicated to internal combustion bullshit are depressing. vrroooom vroom vroooooom is not a replacement for actually having a life.
I love the self identifying vrooom vrooooooom downvotes rofls. you guys need to find a better hobby.
You DON'T unDerSTAND I must go vrrroom vrrroom on city streets regardless of pedestrian safety or my wife will remember my dick doesn't work.
the wife left him years ago lol....
Hmm which depreciates faster?
Some of these cases are so expensive. I am wanting a Super Micro CSE-836 style case to upgrade my NAS and I have an eBay alert I set a few years ago when I couldn't quite justify spending the money. Turns out I should have because even used the prices are going up and up.
Been a few years since I looked, but HP's DL line used to be reasonably affordable.
I broke my laptop's screen. It has been serving as my homeserver for the past 10 years.
A super fast car is a toy, fast electronics are useful tools.
Sure, but from some point up enterprise-class tech stops making sense for home use.
A super fast car is a tool to make me happier. Not that I'll ever be able to afford one.
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