kriegalex
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TLDR : 8 core Xeon Silver 4110 with 8 HDD bays, PERC H330, selling for ~$1100 instead of ~$1700. Memory and HDD to be bought separately. Planned use : mainly Plex (4K HEVC transcoding possible) and media storage.
It is popular for homelabs to buy old gen servers to maximize the cost effectiveness of a setup, but in this case I just saw some deals on recent Dell Hardware. Some T440 PowerEdge are currently discounted on a local e-shop:
The final unit may look like this :
It is popular for homelabs to buy old gen servers to maximize the cost effectiveness of a setup, but in this case I just saw some deals on recent Dell Hardware. Some T440 PowerEdge are currently discounted on a local e-shop:
- Xeon Silver 4110, 8GB DDR4, upgradable up to 512GB
- 8x 3.5'', PERC H330, comes with 1 HDD
- ~$1100 down from $1700 (~35%). The CPU alone is worth $550 here.
The final unit may look like this :
- 2x 8TB RAID 1, buffer vdev
- 6x 8TB RAIDZ2, media vdev
- 8x8GB DDR4 RAM (or even 8x16 if prices are really going down)
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