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I've been running a gen 8 microserver with a 4C/8T Xeon for the past few years. The servers got cheap like <£200 and the Xeon was used from eBay for not very mu
by bpye 7y ago
I've been running a gen 8 microserver with a 4C/8T Xeon for the past few years. The servers got cheap like <£200 and the Xeon was used from eBay for not very much, IIRC £100. Stuck in a cheap 8GB ECC stick of DDR3 to bring the total to 12GB and it currently runs NixOS.
I still haven't found anything with a comparably convenient form factor and the remote management is pretty useful too. Can still saturate my 1G LAN, more or less, with Samba. Other than the power draw, which I'm sure would improve with a more modern CPU, I haven't really felt the need to upgrade.
- vbezhenar 7y agoSame here. Another annoyance for me is that its fans are a bit loud unless I'm running it in fake raid mode which requires proprietary Linux drivers. But I've found nothing comparable.
- Scoundreller 7y agoIf you’re okay with less airflow, you may be able to run the fans at 10V if you have a -5 and +5 available. Or just run a few diodes on the 12V supply to the fan to get 0.6x voltage drops.
- herf 7y agoMoving right now to the HPE ML110 gen10 because I wanted 8 disks that were quiet. (Previously was using a microserver gen8 with an external enclosure.)