What's a good budget home server? (lemmy.ml)

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EDIT : I'm going to use a Lenovo P500 (at around $130) with 8 threads (will upgrade it later) and 64gb of RAM. It support the E5 v4 family so that's great. If someone knows the power consumption, that would be cool!

Hello, I want to build a "homelab" and I'm searching for a server, what do you propose me as good options? I need something with at least 64gb RAM, can buy used, and minimum 16vcores.. Around 150$ If you have any good options let's comment below 👇 THX ❤

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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LTT	Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex	Brand of media server package
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

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[-] Toes@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Go on eBay, punch in the price you're looking to spend and search for an old server. Keep in mind some manufacturers use proprietary connectors.

Look for servers with lots of ECC ram, clean photos of the internals.

They probably won't have a drive that's pretty common.

To meet that 16 core requirement, you'll probably be looking at older dual socket systems.

Edit: a quick search I found this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/225978893065?

Not a perfect match but the price is pretty good.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You might be able to find an HP DL360 for around that price

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't worry about a specific number of cores, as that doesn't translate at all to CPU performance. Instead look at single thread performance.

So something with a Core i5-7500 on ebay for example, should be able to get one in your price range after buying more RAM.

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