I went a bit more then a couple hundred, but if you buy some parts used, you can probably get something close to this. It’s super quiet, very low energy use, just works up there on the cabinet in my home office.
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CarlosSpicyWiener@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAs low as I can , a couple of hundred of euros
zlatko@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
beerclue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you can get away with half that. i run my setup (similar to what you wrote) on a dell micro sff with an i5 6500t and 16gb ram that i paid 90€ for. not the snappiest, but works just fine.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
I’m using the same, Dell OptiPlex SFF.
Has an M2 for the OS, put a full size 8TB drive in for data. I run multiple VMs in VMware on Windows (yep, I know, not the best approach).
It has 32GB of RAM, and it does fine simultaneously converting video and streaming it via Jellyfin. My data is locally replicated to two other systems: a NAS that’s too slow to actually host anything, and a low power machine just for replication.
What I would do differently: run Linux and use KVM of some sort.
Currently it idles at about 15w, peaks at 80w when converting. It’s practically silent at idle.
Paid next to nothing for the box (~$50), most costs are in the ram and drive upgrade.
beerclue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This was my starting up machine. Of course, an nvme makes sense, especially running windows on it. I went for Proxmox, and now I have 4 different machines, a cluster of 3 similar sffs, and a chunkier boi with an i7, 64gb ram and a quadro gpu. This one was the most expensive, around 250€.
Beware, this is how it starts. From a single machine in my office, I went to a mini Datacenter in my cellar, with 4 “servers” (micro-pcs), two Nas devices, a raspberry pi cluster, a dell wyse cluster, new switches and access points, and so much more :))
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Lol, I kind of went the other direction. Built a massive box years ago, the hardware aged out and I wanted something that wouldn’t draw 120w sitting there.
Tinkered with a Pi for a while and realized it really wasn’t worth the effort to make it useful for my needs.
Came across this thing and setup as a test. Then I saw the power draw, 15w at idle (little more than the Pi!) and decided to see how much I could do with it. Ran Proxmox on it for a while, but the power draw was awful because it lacks good, easy power management. Plus I don’t really need what PM can do…yet.