> But when I showed off my build on /r/homelab, reddit’s homelab subcommunity, they mocked me as a filthy casual because I used consumer parts. The cool kids used enterprise gear.
It should be noted that you can purchase used enterprise servers for peanuts.
I'm looking right now at an ad for a used Dell PowerEdge R730xd SFF 24x which packs two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 and 64GB of RAM which is on the market for about $1200, and it was literally the first search result.
A Dell PowerEdge R720 8x 2U LFF with the same CPU/RAM/HDD combo is on the market for less than $1000.
A Dell Precision T7610 workstation, with dual Xeon ES-2670 and 64GB of RAM, can be purchased by around $600.
> But when I showed off my build on /r/homelab, reddit’s homelab subcommunity, they mocked me as a filthy casual because I used consumer parts. The cool kids used enterprise gear.
It should be noted that you can purchase used enterprise servers for peanuts.
I'm looking right now at an ad for a used Dell PowerEdge R730xd SFF 24x which packs two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 and 64GB of RAM which is on the market for about $1200, and it was literally the first search result.
A Dell PowerEdge R720 8x 2U LFF with the same CPU/RAM/HDD combo is on the market for less than $1000.
A Dell Precision T7610 workstation, with dual Xeon ES-2670 and 64GB of RAM, can be purchased by around $600.