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On the cheap side, I got old Lenovo m93p - USFF with 8GB RAM, i5 (2 cores, 4 threads) with 4 USB 3.0 ports, which is just enough for lightweight VMs, some test
by aljarry 6y ago
On the cheap side, I got old Lenovo m93p - USFF with 8GB RAM, i5 (2 cores, 4 threads) with 4 USB 3.0 ports, which is just enough for lightweight VMs, some test containers and ZFS mirror for backups / NAS. Whole package with 2x2TB disks was around 350$.
- mech422 6y agoI still swear by my Ameridroid H2's - Celeron quad core, dual channel DDR 4, 2 x 1Gbps nic, 1 x NVME, 2 x Sata, 4K video - less then $120. I have 3 that I got the end of last year - tricked out with 16G DDR4 and 2x480G SATA - $250 each edit clarify it was $250/each
- SparkyMcUnicorn 6y agoA few days ago I picked up a SFF Dell (precision T1700) with a Xeon E3, 32GB DDR3, small SSD + HDD, 11 USB ports, and a thunderbolt pcie card. All for $200. The CPU is roughly equivalent to a 6th or 7th gen i5, but with 8 threads instead of 4. Installed proxmox with 1 VM and several containers. Couldn't be happier with everything. My wife can't even hear it under decent load in the living room.
- mech422 6y agoI got a rack full of Dell and HP blade servers of Ebay years ago - nice gear - dual quad core xeons with 48G ram, SSD, and gigabit networking... Thing is, running all 16+ blades pushes my electric bill over $500/month, and sounds like a fighter jet getting ready to take off :-P Having silent gear is totally underrated!
- rubatuga 6y agoPicked up a HP Z230 SFF with a Xeon E3 a month ago. Fits two hard drives, a sata ssd, two nvme, as well as a USB-C Pcie adapter. It runs Ubuntu 19.10 with ZFS, and VMs using libvirt and hand defined XML.