Went down a similar route for a 'mini virtualization server.' HP ProDesk 405 G6 with an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750GE (8C/16T, 3.1GHz base clock, 8 VEGA GPU cores), and tossed in 64GB of DDR4-3200 and a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro. Real storage is like 55TB of RAID 1 or RAID 10 arrays on the network, where VM backups and snapshots also go (and get shoved out to Backblaze), as well as media and other chunky data. If you got an EliteDesk 805 you can even have a second M.2 socket so you can RAID1 the SSDs. Only downer is no 10GbE ethernet.
Sits at about 12W at idle. With everything under the sun running it hums along at about 20-22W of power consumption. Absolutely silent. Plus being an APU I can even have a Plex VM happily transcode without breaking a sweat. AMD DASH means I also have full IPMI functionality as well (not as good as Intel vPro, but good enough).
1L form factors (incl. Mac Mini, NUCs) are ideal home servers at this point when you need much more power than a Raspberry Pi provides.
Sits at about 12W at idle. With everything under the sun running it hums along at about 20-22W of power consumption. Absolutely silent. Plus being an APU I can even have a Plex VM happily transcode without breaking a sweat. AMD DASH means I also have full IPMI functionality as well (not as good as Intel vPro, but good enough).
1L form factors (incl. Mac Mini, NUCs) are ideal home servers at this point when you need much more power than a Raspberry Pi provides.