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What's a good budget home server? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 👇 THX ❤

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Look at my edit do you think it's better?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (9 children)

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkStation/ThinkStation_P500/ThinkStation_P500_Spec.PDF

Got a 490W or 650W PSU. Looks like the CPU is probably around 9-10 years. I'd say probably not much. I bet it's idling would be around 120-200W depending on # of disks, disk type, and if your using the PCI slots.

For reference I'm running 4 Intel NUC11i7s, $400/unit bare metal, 64GB ram (2x32) $120-$130, and the most expensive part is the flash storage I am buying to fit my needs. Power on these are like 10W idle and max is like 60W each when using turbo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (8 children)

do you think that this thing would be around 150W?? I think more about 50W Max, for example the cpu is relatively low-power

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am not the best at estimating power usage but like I said depends on the configuration it has. That's just CPU, not including powering everything else so it's idle load will be higher. RAM, disks, type of disk, amount of disks, GPU or other PCI cards, etc every additional component adds to the idle watt usage.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

for sure but even with all my stuff I think that something like that would draw around 40-50W idle and up to 90W running

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