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What's a good budget home server? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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 πŸ‘‡ THX ❀

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[–] Celestus@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Used HP ProLiant. It’s nearly 10 years old, but has 16 cores 64GB of RAM, and is just under $150 with free shipping

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235286275608

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it'll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine. Assuming $0.12/kwh, that's $262.8 per year for electricity alone.

Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just want to correct something is that the TDP is the power under load, so if the cpu is not 100% used it could be 20 hours at 25W and 4 at 90W

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 6 months ago

Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.

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