This sounds good for a home server if you need to do CPU-intensive things, like transcoding video, or running an ML model on CPU. But if you only need to do lo

This sounds good for a home server if you need to do CPU-intensive things, like transcoding video, or running an ML model on CPU. But if you only need to do lower-compute things (e.g., file serving, serving static/dynamic Web pages, home automation, running simple other server processes), some other home server options include: * SBCs (like Rasberry Pi). * Intel NUCs, and those mini-PCs that are marketed as corporate thin clients, and which can be gotten used for what you'd pay for a modern RaspI plus the required duct-taped supporting accessories. * "NAS" boxes that people who want to plug&play lots of RAID storage buy, and who sometimes run additional small server stuff on on the "NAS" box. * Retired datacenter and office rackmount servers, if you can make them quiet enough. I've eyed the Dell R210 II and later versions (1U, short-depth), but ended up going with... * Retired short-depth 1U rackmount Atom servers. These has been my favorite, and I converted them to fanless, except for retrofitting the Flex-ATX PSU with a Noctua fan. Sometimes I'd buy retired enterprise appliances that I knew were just Supermicro hardware with different bezel or paint, but my current servers are more hand-picked parts. They draw more power than a RasPi, but have a lot less misc. fragility. Also, if you need a GPU compute server, or a big CPU, you could do a lot worse than building it around a gaming PC that's already designed to cool big GPUs without being too loud. Personally, I squeezed a 3090 into a 4U rackmount chassis, with 3 Noctua fans, which also works, but was harder. (And if I wasn't already married to the PlayStation ecosystem for gaming, I probably would've made the GPU server double as a Steam box that happens to loan out its GPU for occasional ML crunching jobs.)