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Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? by stiray on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:45AM (#23282157)
Well, let me recomend something else, check asrock mini-itx motherboards with on-board cpu. You can get those for ~150 euros, throw in some ram (~60 euros) and some disk (100euro) + some chasis (Phenom mini-itx for instance, ~100euros). For home server this will work great :)

I am running home server (100% self hosted including emails) with J1900-itx motherboard with 20Tb of disk space (zraid) for years. No need to bother with ps4/5.

Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? by reanimated on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:10PM (#23284595)
Well, your described bundle would be over 400€ then you can purchase used PS4 at least half that price and even cheaper.
Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? by stiray on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:22PM (#23285146)
Yes, but ps4 is gaming rig and you will have to jailbreak it every reboot. It depends on what you intend to run, raspberry pi 4 and sd card could be just more then enough for some people. Those prices were over the thumb, my motherboard with cpu is there since 2014 and is now $60 while it is more than enough and with going minimal (ram, chasis, disk - with ps4 you will get 1tb at most) you can pull it of under ps4 price. At the end, if you divide those 400 euros by 6 years, you are at price of 5.55 euro / month (not to mention you can reuse chasis and disks when upgrading) and it is low power setup (measured with 4 disks was 33 watts).

Jailbreaking could be nice for other <wink> unnamed purposes.

Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? by SomeoneFromCA on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:17PM (#23293886)
I recently bought an Ivy Bridge CPU low power CPU + motherboard for $35 and 8 GiB of ram for $25. No need to buy new hardware if you can do away with old.