If it’s for a homelab or small project refurbished models are still a good deal but you should hurry, my vendor is running low on hardware that was sitting for years… I got an R630 (40 cores, 64Gb RAM) on offer a few months ago for peanuts…
honestly servers don’t need the latest hardware: just build using DDR4 (or even DDR3): it’s half the price per GB or less each step down, and honestly the biggest reason you want RAM in a server is for a ZFS cache, which is going to be bottlenecked on plenty of other things far before your RAM speed (IMO; i’ve done exactly 0 testing)
(though the max size of a DDR3 module is 8GB so on most consumer hardware that will limit you to 32GB total)
Fuck this
Proxmox cluster and shuck externals I started during the 2008 crash this is how I’d do budget HL
If it’s for a homelab or small project refurbished models are still a good deal but you should hurry, my vendor is running low on hardware that was sitting for years… I got an R630 (40 cores, 64Gb RAM) on offer a few months ago for peanuts…
I wonder what are peanuts in this context. It sounds like a great server!
1 SERVER DELL R630 8SFF 2xE5- 2640v4/0GB/H330m-nCn 2 HDD SAS 1.8TB SEAGATE 12G 10K 2.5 1 RAIL KIT 1U R320 R330 R420 R430 R620 R630 R640 NX3300/NX400 SLIDING A7 8 DRIVE TRAY 2.5’’ SAS FOR DELL R710/R410/R610/T410 PLASTIC 8 8GB MICRON PC4-2400T DDR4-2400 1Rx8 ECC RDIMM about 210 euros plus VAT peaNUTS!
honestly servers don’t need the latest hardware: just build using DDR4 (or even DDR3): it’s half the price per GB or less each step down, and honestly the biggest reason you want RAM in a server is for a ZFS cache, which is going to be bottlenecked on plenty of other things far before your RAM speed (IMO; i’ve done exactly 0 testing)
(though the max size of a DDR3 module is 8GB so on most consumer hardware that will limit you to 32GB total)
DDR4 RDIMM is like 4 times what it was this summer so even that won’t save you.
It still cost a lot compared to this summer :/
I should have bought more DDR5 when I first built mine. I figured I’d be able to add more later so I just focused on a good CPU…