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I'm a huge fan of my underprovisioned homelab, squeezing perf out of a tiny old i3 based system is weirdly satisfying. Just one more container, baby! One more t

• neilv 2y ago
  Does it run silent most of the time? (Except maybe fan spin-up when transcoding?)
  • SSLy 2y ago
    Yea, barely audible fan.
  • WaxProlix 2y ago
    Late reply but yes, very silent. The 4-bay DAS next to it gets a bit noisy though, unsurprisingly.
• NoPicklez 2y ago
  Me too! Those ex-government micro form factor PC's are little workhorses which give me lots of compute with minimal power and space.
• volkadav 2y ago
  For a long time my home server was a dell wyse 3040 that I got for £25 on flea-bay. 1.4ghz quad core x86-64, 2g ddr3 ram, 8gb emmc, <= 5w max load, fanless, runs standard, normal debian like a treat. :) Eventually I got tired of being constantly vigilant about disk space and replaced it with a more traditional desktop, but I still love that little (compute) engine that could (it's still alive as a glorified ereader desktop for the kids -- just enough muscle to run firefox and epub/pdf readers without being capable of distractions).