Re:Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives
by bombcar on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:03AM
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The Rock5B is whipping the Pi on compute power and availability. Only use a Pi if you absolutely have to.
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Re:Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives
by blitzar on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:32AM
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At $150+ I would just buy an old small form factor dell / hp from ebay and have a whole machine.
Re:Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives
by bogwog on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:54AM
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I bought a retired dual-socket Xeon HP 1U server on ebay with 128GB of ECC RAM for like $50 on ebay a while back. It only had one CPU, but upgrading it to two would be very cheap.
Sure, it's hulking, obsolete, and very loud beast, but it's hard to beat the price to performance ratio there... just make sure you don't put anything super valuable on it because HP's old proliant firmware likely has a ton of unpatched critical vulnerabilities (and you'd need an HP support plan to download patches even if they exist)
Re:Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives
by celestialcheese on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:04PM
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100% this.
I picked up a HP 705 G4 mini on backmarket for $80 shipped the other day to run Home Assistant and some other small local containers. 500gb ram, Ryzen 5 2400GE, 8gb ddr4 w/ a valid windows license.
Sure it's not as small or silent, but there's no way to beat the prices of these few-years old enterprise mini-pc's