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What to do with a beefy server? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Alright, this may be a bit of a loaded question. But I figured it may provide good insight to both myself and to others. I just came into a pretty beefy server - dual Xeon E5 2699 v3’s (18 cores each), 768 gigs of RAM. Ten front drive bays, 6 of which have 7.68T NVMes and 4 of which have 15.36T SAS drives. I’m thinking the NVMe drives will go into a single RAID 5 or 6 (thoughts?), and the 15360s I plan to use for more sensitive stuff so I’m planning dual RAID 1’s there. Boot drives will be a hardware RAID 1 of dual 1920G SATA SSDs. So again… pretty beefy. I believe this server would cost me ~$100/month to run, although I may try something where I keep it off 6/7 days of the week and only turn it on if I need it otherwise, I’m not sure yet. Thoughts on that are welcome too.

All of that said. I’ve got the power & the storage for some pretty neat projects. But I’ve not delved into anything of this nature before. I’ve heard of Plex, I’ve heard of Jellyfin, but I don’t really know what it all means past that. And I think it would be pretty neat to be able to dump some streaming service subscriptions and make up for a bit of the coin I’d be dumping to power this thing (may also host a Minecraft server with it, lol).

I’m very familiar with Linux/console, so that’s not really an issue. I’m erring towards either Arch or Ubuntu (fight me, I like both).

Thoughts? Ideas? I figured this was a good community to post this in but can remove if it isn’t.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy hell, and here I am with my 6core "beefy" server lol!

What a beast!

If you like a specific art genre you could fill it up with that like an internet archive (say 1980 hip hop or Italian 1960 films) but that won't put a dent in it I guess!

Good luck to whatever you do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In all fairness, the CPUs were actually the cheapest part, lol. Only 80 bucks a few weeks back for the pair off of eBay. I could’ve technically gone with the 2699 v4’s but the perf gain over the v3s for the price really just wasn’t worth it. Not a bad idea… internet archives are always a good move! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm here wondering if I want to upgrade my R5 1600