Hey, I’m always searching a home server (already post here https://lemmy.ml/post/15083947), I was thinking about a Lenovo P500, but maybe the PSU is a bit too special… My budget around $140, will buy used parts and one of the most important thing is the power efficiency (don’t care about the peak wattage but want to stay around 50W idle and settling at about 70W when doing some work). Preferably I wouldn’t like to buy mini PCs. 😃 Thx!

  • UndulyUnruly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    7 months ago

    You got your answers before, you just don’t want to accept them. The relationship between budget and performance expectation still borders delusion.

    To quote u/Peachman who hit the nail on the head:

    Looking for recommendations for a racecar, at least 800 horsepower. Needs to hit 60 mph in under 4 seconds. My budget is $2000. Please give recommendations. LOL

    Fork out more money or lower your expectation.

    • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      In fact I’ve found pretty nice deal with 128gb and 24vcores at $160, the only downside is that it’s a proliant dl380 g8 m, so it’s going to be noisy and power hungry

        • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          21·
          7 months ago

          That’s exactly why I didn’t buy it, and I don’t need so much specs, just something more power efficient with lower specs, so if you have some recommandations…

          • eleitl@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            I would look into thin clients and Lenovo etc. tiny PC for office on eBay. I run old low power low noise rackmount Supermicros which are nice but hard to find at low prices.

    • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      I would prefer to not because a mini PC is not good for upgrade, has no space, not so fast and it’s not so low priced

      • vizzi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        well I don’t see your use case anywhere to really speak to the “not so fast” but I’ve been running around 20 containers on an old refurbished Optiplex 7040, with 0 issues and a ton of headroom, for like $100.

        and sure, “upgrading” is not existent, but I’ve thought of it this way: it’s to learn on, and that itself is great for upgrading later, as I’ll have a better idea of what I want and how to do it when I do get the big beefy server.

  • bbuez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I got a 1U 32GB and a 4 core Xeon for 20$, you just have to make at least 3 more posts