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I found this out the hard way. Picked up a cheap surplus ProLiant to mess around with, and quickly realized it would be far better for my use case to use a busi
by drewzero1 5y ago
I found this out the hard way. Picked up a cheap surplus ProLiant to mess around with, and quickly realized it would be far better for my use case to use a business-class desktop or laptop and avoid the unnecessary noise, space, and power draw of pro server hardware. It sure looked cool, though.
- fomine3 5y agoThen you miss ECC if you need reliability. Only workstations equip ECC RAM even for business.
- drewzero1 5y agoThat's true, but for my use case I found it wasn't necessary (though it would be nice to have, in general.)
- stordoff 5y agoI went for a tower server for those exact reasons - sensible idle power draw and quiet even under full load (I've got an x265 encode running at the moment, and it's not quite silent but there's just a very gentle hum) without losing ECC. Some of the older dual Xeon servers on eBay were tempting, but the noise/power draw made it a non-starter.