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If you don't care about your electricity bill, you can buy used Xeon workstations on your favorite auction site. A couple years ago, we picked up a HP Z800 wor
by ansible 9y ago
If you don't care about your electricity bill, you can buy used Xeon workstations on your favorite auction site.
A couple years ago, we picked up a HP Z800 workstation with two 12-core processors and 24GB of RAM for $400.
The main downside is that if the power supply (proprietary) or motherboard die, there's not easy fix for it other than buying another of the same model.
- wpietri 9y agoAbsolutely! I wanted something to host my private and experimental stuff. A friend of mine who tracks used server auctions pointed me at some servers that were Dell systems clearly custom built for one of the large SV companies. I paid $450 for a box with 72GB of RAM and 16 cores. At that price, I just bought a second one for spares. Which I haven't needed to use in the 4 or 5 years I've been using it. It has been great.
- telchar 9y agoWould you care to share the server auction site? I've thought about doing something like that.
- wpietri 9y agoThis was 4+ years ago, so I have no idea of the current market, but I bought from this eBay vendor: http://stores.ebay.com/deepdiscountservers http://stores.ebay.com/deepdiscountservers
- foobiekr 9y agoWeirdStuff also used to be great for this.