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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/mvdw73 on 2025-06-08 09:54:33+00:00.
Picked up a Dell Precision T7820 the other day out of ewaste, and Grabbed 128GB of RAM off marketplace for $AUD95.
The machine has dual Silver Xeons (2x 8C/16T); now 160GB memory; but a tiny tiny 256GB NVMe drive, and a single 1TB spinning rust drive.
Luckily the flex bays are intact so I can replace the NVMe drive if I want, and fit a total of 3x (I think) spinning drives.
I already have a 10-core/20-thread proliant server with 96GB RAM and 6x disks running all my services (which isn't much on my network...), and a fairly nice HP Z440 WS with 64GB RAM and a 6-core Xeon processor that is much faster single-threaded than the new one.
What should I do with the new machine? Any ideas? Other than sell it of course...