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My university had excedent servers after cloud migration and were going to throw them out. Any tips for sourcing drives and ram?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Free servers tend to cost a LOT of money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even bought ones cost a LOT of money too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Depends on how you buy it. If you keep power consumption at the top of mind, and you stay about 3 years back in the early refresh cycle, you can do very well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Was gonna say this. They are fun to play with but they are LOUD, expensive to run, and likely overkill for most home jobs.