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As I said above, used is not an option for anything other than a hobby. You found a great used PC for $100. Awesome, now get me 50 more of those with the same s

As I said above, used is not an option for anything other than a hobby. You found a great used PC for $100. Awesome, now get me 50 more of those with the same specs and price. And don’t forget to make sure every power supply, RAM and SSD is working properly.

nirav72 3y ago
You need 50 of those to run at home for selfhosting/homelab? I've bought a few. Never had any issues. They're not hard to find if you need them in bulk. But then again, most people don't need 50 of them or even more than a few for home use. Amazon renewed sells mini-PCs and you can just as easily return them if there are issues. If you need 50 of them, then your use case is for enterprise or business use. You should probably not look at a raspberry pi then either. Even if you don't want to buy on secondary market because concerns around ram, power supply or SSD. Then even a new mini-PC running something like a Intel N100 for $100-150 will vastly outperform a Raspberry Pi 5- yet still provide better I/O options + QuickSync. One example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZVYB2VmAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZVYB2VmAM
hypercube33 3y ago
I have a used m75q running 16 full blown windows server vms and a few Linux servers and it draws about 35w and cost me $200 all in with 2tb of m.2 and 64gb of DDR4 ram and it's still got room to grow. I also ran a data center and an MSP where we always sourced used servers and never had issues with them running for longer than their intended 4 to 5 year lifespan. I have pretty heavy workloads I run for side projects for friends and run everything on 3com gig switches I also got used. HP still warranties them and releases firmware. Schools use off lease hardware other than chrome books that get beaten to death by kids without problems for years. I really fail to see your argument against used hardware. The pi ecosystem has become a total accessory one where you need non standard power supplies and video adapters to connect them up where a single used desktop PC gives more value and less points of failure - and when things do fail you can find readily available off the shelf parts to fix them.

nirav72 3y ago

You need 50 of those to run at home for selfhosting/homelab? I've bought a few. Never had any issues. They're not hard to find if you need them in bulk. But then again, most people don't need 50 of them or even more than a few for home use. Amazon renewed sells mini-PCs and you can just as easily return them if there are issues. If you need 50 of them, then your use case is for enterprise or business use. You should probably not look at a raspberry pi then either. Even if you don't want to buy on secondary market because concerns around ram, power supply or SSD. Then even a new mini-PC running something like a Intel N100 for $100-150 will vastly outperform a Raspberry Pi 5- yet still provide better I/O options + QuickSync. One example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZVYB2VmAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZVYB2VmAM

hypercube33 3y ago

I have a used m75q running 16 full blown windows server vms and a few Linux servers and it draws about 35w and cost me $200 all in with 2tb of m.2 and 64gb of DDR4 ram and it's still got room to grow. I also ran a data center and an MSP where we always sourced used servers and never had issues with them running for longer than their intended 4 to 5 year lifespan. I have pretty heavy workloads I run for side projects for friends and run everything on 3com gig switches I also got used. HP still warranties them and releases firmware. Schools use off lease hardware other than chrome books that get beaten to death by kids without problems for years. I really fail to see your argument against used hardware. The pi ecosystem has become a total accessory one where you need non standard power supplies and video adapters to connect them up where a single used desktop PC gives more value and less points of failure - and when things do fail you can find readily available off the shelf parts to fix them.