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Upgrade suggestions (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Ariggsd179@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I’m looking to upgrade/replace my current home server, I’m running an old Dell precision T7500 with dual Xeon X5550’s that I picked up for free and it’s been doing everything I’ve needed so far but also eating a lot of power even at idle. I would really like to get the power draw down more than anything else but don’t want to sacrifice performance while doing so. I mainly use it as my Plex server and Adguard server on Unraid, but would like to start running a few more containers and maybe a couple of VM’s as well. Also all of my drives are 3.5” drives and I can’t afford to replace them as well. Looking to spend around $400 at most. Any suggestions?

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[–] homelabgobrrr@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pickup the cheapest HP Z440 you can find (~$120 for a barebones) grab a 12 core e5 2650 v4 for $5 and as many 16gb ddr4 ecc dimms as you wish for $12 each (all current eBay prices) it’ll idle under $100w running a few VM’s