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!
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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.
Hahaha it’s that guy again. I want an Amazon server for a fiver please!
Yeah it’s me again because I wanna to make sure that I will buy the right thing for my homelab journey (don’t wanna spend money uselessly)
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
Factor in power bills and heat and noise into your calculations.
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…
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.
I don’t think there’s anything on the market that checks all the boxes for a $140 budget.
The Lenovo P500 has 64gb RAM, 12 vcores for as low as $135, and it seems a bit power efficient The onlydownside is that the PSU is a bit strange (hard to find)
It sounds like you already know what you want to buy, just fucking buy it. Why are you fishing for other people’s approval on what you spend your own money on?
I don’t want the people approval, just I want to know if some others alternatives exists to make sure that I start my homelab with a good setup
Not sure where you’re shopping, but I can’t find it below $200 for 16GB of RAM.
Searching on my “national used marketplace”, but do you have some recommandations? I don’t care about the specs mostly the power draw…
At that price point not really, and there is definitely going to be some tradeoffs required between power vs consumption vs price.
sounds like you need to get a mini PC.
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
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 $100.
and sure, “upgrading” is not existent, but I’ve thought of it this way: it’s to learn on, and that itself is great for upgrading later, as I’ll have a better idea of what I want and how to do it when I do get the big beefy server.
Humm ok, maybe trying to find a sff PC (don’t want a mini PC)
I got a 1U 32GB and a 4 core Xeon for 20$, you just have to make at least 3 more posts
Search eBay for used gaming laptops. Comes with a built in UPS.
