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Looks like I found that "home server" to replace my over-use of cloud resources that I've been looking for!
by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Looks like I found that "home server" to replace my over-use of cloud resources that I've been looking for!
- stiray 6y agoWell, let me recomend something else, check asrock mini-itx motherboards with on-board cpu. You can get those for ~150 euros, throw in some ram (~60 euros) and some disk (100euro) + some chasis (Phenom mini-itx for instance, ~100euros). For home server this will work great :) I am running home server (100% self hosted including emails) with J1900-itx motherboard with 20Tb of disk space (zraid) for years. No need to bother with ps4/5.
- reanimated 6y agoWell, your described bundle would be over 400€ then you can purchase used PS4 at least half that price and even cheaper.
- stiray 6y agoYes, but ps4 is gaming rig and you will have to jailbreak it every reboot. It depends on what you intend to run, raspberry pi 4 and sd card could be just more then enough for some people. Those prices were over the thumb, my motherboard with cpu is there since 2014 and is now $60 while it is more than enough and with going minimal (ram, chasis, disk - with ps4 you will get 1tb at most) you can pull it of under ps4 price. At the end, if you divide those 400 euros by 6 years, you are at price of 5.55 euro / month (not to mention you can reuse chasis and disks when upgrading) and it is low power setup (measured with 4 disks was 33 watts). Jailbreaking could be nice for other <wink> unnamed purposes.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoI recently bought an Ivy Bridge CPU low power CPU + motherboard for $35 and 8 GiB of ram for $25. No need to buy new hardware if you can do away with old.