Comment on Thoughts about my (potential) first server?
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 week agoYeah, same.
I don’t know which version this 2620 is (they’ve been around since 2012), but any modern consumer CPU can outpace it by an order of magnitude - tho with fewer PCIe lanes (& possibly memory throughput, but not sure, maybe not), but it doesn’t sound like you need them.
Also idling makes quite a lot of difference even with cheap electricity bcs it’s 24/7 (eg 10 monies more a month in a rig that costs 200 monies either way is perhaps worth considering). Those “old” servers didn’t really power down much (CPU voltage + other parts, like server mobos, generally consume more power).
Additionally to consider whatever the pro admin (closed sauce) tools the server has.
And this is just me, but I also don’t need RAID for my use case (and drive prices), for the same price as one HDD (a few years back that is) I would rather add that drive in an additional separate server/PC & have a backup system instead of just a backup drive (and it can be in a remote location in case of other emergencies/damages, like fire or whatever).
orsetto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Old desktop pc would be ideal, for exactly the problems you pointed out. The only thing that is making me consider this is the already included drives, which is where i’d end up spending most of my money (especially now, thanks ai)
I mean, the same capacity would cost WAY too much more. For a similar capacity + the system i’d have to spend at least double :(
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
Are 22TB Exos derives around 400+ monies (double the price from a year ago). 6TB are only half that? Idk even where to look for prices bcs stock is weird.
Yeah, these are dark times, evey gen things get worse instead of advancements ppl can use.
Still, keep in mind that those “nice” SAS drives are still slow & might have been in operation for 12 years.