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A 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. Th
by SparkyMcUnicorn 7y ago
A 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 7y 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!