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My Kill-A-Watt meter helped me determine that the best home server is a almost always going to be a fast laptop (around 2 years old) stashed in your bedroom clo
by noonespecial 12y ago
My Kill-A-Watt meter helped me determine that the best home server is a almost always going to be a fast laptop (around 2 years old) stashed in your bedroom closet. You'll get the most computer per dollar of purchase price/power price available plus a built-in UPS and quiet operation as a bonus.
- theonewolf 12y agoThat makes sense. Unless you need, like me, 24-32 GB++ of RAM. Dual HDDs, and a whole lot of cores to run 3-4 VMs at a time. Then the laptop is so resource-poor that it is rendered useless for the workloads I described in the article. This article wasn't about how to make a "cheap home server"---it was about replicating real data-center-class hardware in the home and how to do that cheaply.
- noonespecial 12y agoYmmv I guess. 20gig ram (2 8s plus onboard 4), 1.5 tb 7200 rpm and an i7 was enough for me to do my handful of vms. Granted no ecc, no mirroring, no future expansion. But then no 18$/month power bill either. To each their own.
- theonewolf 12y agoHow much did your 20gig of RAM cost you? We don't run 24/7, only when we need to do our experiments. So the power bill is much lower than what a lot of people are worried about. This setup is definitely used on-demand :-)