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I recently got a PowerEdge R730XD with 24 drive bays, Two Xeon E5s (a mid range model, I can't recall now) and 256GB of RDRAM installed for less than a new, pas
by bayindirh 2y ago
I recently got a PowerEdge R730XD with 24 drive bays, Two Xeon E5s (a mid range model, I can't recall now) and 256GB of RDRAM installed for less than a new, passively cooled N100.
I need to get disks, though. That was not part of the deal.
However I won't be installing that thing at home. I'm not that mad, yet.
- codetrotter 2y ago> I won't be installing that thing at home. I'm not that mad, yet. What do you do instead? Colocation rental in a DC?
- bayindirh 2y agoThat one will live in a university's data center, for a joint project I'll be doing with my professor. It'll be a project-centric server. Not a general purpose one. For smaller tasks, N100 and RaspberryPi/OrangePi 5 series are more than sufficient.
- mschuster91 2y ago> However I won't be installing that thing at home. I'm not that mad, yet. I put my farm under the roof, in a properly enclosed rack. No noise and I'll also get some fire alarms to cut the power feed to the rack in case something goes bonkers up there. (Any recommendations on CO2 extinguisher systems welcome)
- bayindirh 2y agoIt's great that you have space for that. I don't have that much space to do that. Another reason I don't yearn for a homelab is that I play with a lot of hardware already. I have no idea on CO2 extinguishers, sorry.