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> For home use, you're better off buying a used 2U-4U Supermicro or Dell box with an old Xeon or two. But these are not passive-cooled at all and are very, ver
by darkwater 7y ago
> For home use, you're better off buying a used 2U-4U Supermicro or Dell box with an old Xeon or two.
But these are not passive-cooled at all and are very, very, VERY noisy in a home environment.
- alkonaut 7y agoAnd also the electricity cost over the lifetime (say 10 years 24/7) is quite substantial. It makes no difference for a powerful server but for a small low power thing it can be quite a chunk of the total cost.