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> The total cost comes to around €350 A few weeks ago I bought an used intel nuc7 with a 7th gen core i5… for 150€. It came with a 120gb ssd, 4gb ram and a po

by znpy 4y ago

> The total cost comes to around €350 A few weeks ago I bought an used intel nuc7 with a 7th gen core i5… for 150€. It came with a 120gb ssd, 4gb ram and a power brick. I still don’t see the value in this SBCs used as home servers.

tyingq 4y ago
The Lenovo "Tiny" machines are also cheap on eBay, even one with a Ryzen 5 and 8Gb RAM for ~$140USD. Though there are reasons to specifically want an ARM64 machine for builds, etc.
- candiddevmike 4y ago
  I just want something small with ECC RAM
  - tyingq 4y ago
    Not cheap, but does support ECC: https://morefine.com/products/morefine-s500-mini-pc https://morefine.com/products/morefine-s500-mini-pc The FAQ question reads a bit funny: "Q19:Support ECC RAM？ YES. S500+ Support ECC RAM， But compatibility requirements are higher, and cannot be used casually." Also, these AsRock products: https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-V1000M https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-V1000M https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-R1000M https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-R1000M
    - candiddevmike 4y ago
      Thank you for the links, that morefine one seems really nice, would need to get 2.5Gb networking gear... I currently have a single 16 core/64 GB ECC Ryzen tower with ZFS that I'd like to break into a ZFS ARM ECC NFS server with a separate small form factor Ryzen or ARM compute cluster.
      - malteg 4y ago
        Honeycomb? https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/honeycomb-servers-workstation/#overview https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/h... I think they also have a lite version supporting ECC…
jforberg 4y ago
NUC is a single board computer :) If you think the price is high, I would point out that the SSD I used cost €200 new when I purchased it back in mid 2022. A used 120 GB SSD by contrast can be had for maybe €10 which alone would explain the difference in cost. Now if 120 GB is enough for your application, that's a good value so more power to you.
- znpy 4y ago
  > NUC is a single board computer :) My laptop is also a single board computer, technically, so what?

by znpy 4y ago

tyingq 4y ago

The Lenovo "Tiny" machines are also cheap on eBay, even one with a Ryzen 5 and 8Gb RAM for ~$140USD. Though there are reasons to specifically want an ARM64 machine for builds, etc.

candiddevmike 4y ago
I just want something small with ECC RAM
- tyingq 4y ago
  Not cheap, but does support ECC: https://morefine.com/products/morefine-s500-mini-pc https://morefine.com/products/morefine-s500-mini-pc The FAQ question reads a bit funny: "Q19:Support ECC RAM？ YES. S500+ Support ECC RAM， But compatibility requirements are higher, and cannot be used casually." Also, these AsRock products: https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-V1000M https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-V1000M https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-R1000M https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-R1000M
  - candiddevmike 4y ago
    Thank you for the links, that morefine one seems really nice, would need to get 2.5Gb networking gear... I currently have a single 16 core/64 GB ECC Ryzen tower with ZFS that I'd like to break into a ZFS ARM ECC NFS server with a separate small form factor Ryzen or ARM compute cluster.
    - malteg 4y ago
      Honeycomb? https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/honeycomb-servers-workstation/#overview https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/h... I think they also have a lite version supporting ECC…

jforberg 4y ago

NUC is a single board computer :) If you think the price is high, I would point out that the SSD I used cost €200 new when I purchased it back in mid 2022. A used 120 GB SSD by contrast can be had for maybe €10 which alone would explain the difference in cost. Now if 120 GB is enough for your application, that's a good value so more power to you.

znpy 4y ago
> NUC is a single board computer :) My laptop is also a single board computer, technically, so what?