Hello,
I’m looking for a good first server for a homelab.
I do already have an old Dell poweredge 1950 I got for £30 but it’s:
- Loud
- Draws 350W
- Costs too much to run
- Only has 2 HDD slots
- DRAC card needs Internet explorer
I’m not too bothered by the noise because I can just move it, but the electricity cost is quite ridiculous for something less powerful than my PC in every way.
I live in the UK so electricity prices are a huge factor for this.
My Ideal specs are:
- ~16 cores (total)
- >= 128GB RAM
- ~100W idle power draw
- >= 4 3.5" HDD bays
- Preferably HBA mode on RAID card
- £100-200
- 2U
Is this completely unreasonable? I have found servers that match this all except the 3.5" bays and 2U.
Initially I found a Dell server with 128GB of RAM and two 12 core CPUs for about £200 but I realised it only has 2.5" bays.
There is a nice R720 on ebay I am watching but it will probably skyrocket near the end of the bid. Also, it probably draws a lot of power.
Any suggestions? do I just need to raise my price?
Thanks
Is 3.5" drive bays a deal breaker? Cause if not, I absolutely LOVE my Hyve Zeus servers!
Do you mean 2.5"? It probably is a deal breaker sadly, unless I can build a DIY SAN or something (I would love to). It sounds bad but I’m probably going to super cheap out on HDDs and buy those crappy £9 SAS drives from ebay and just use aggressive RAID and backups
Also, I can’t find a single one of those that isn’t shipped from the USA
No. I meant 3.5" your original post listed >= 4 3.5" bays.
In my hyve Zeus servers I run two ssd’s in a mirror, and then host all my data on a trunas server with an nfs share. That said, ssd’s are really reasonable (just bought 2 x 2packs of 1tb ssd’s for $66 each). If space requirements exceed what you can do with some ssd’s, then I get it.
I have an r510 as a trunas server. It uses well over a 100 watts, so I can at least provide you that info. Haha.
Nuked my lemmy by accident so using a different account.
No. I meant 3.5" your original post listed >= 4 3.5" bays.
Sorry I figured that out after posting but couldn’t edit.
I was hoping to get about 18TB in RAID but really I should probably just built a dedicated NAS with some new drives not crappy used ones anyway. I found a listing for 3TB SAS HDDs for £9 each, probably really bad drives though.
I have an r510 as a trunas server. It uses well over a 100 watts, so I can at least provide you that info. Haha.
I’ll have to think about that. It’s cost more to run the server for a few months that to buy the thing if it uses too much power.
Unfortunately for that price you’re completely dependant on thing being able to be sniped. Look into liquidation auctions, as they generally sell out of warranty really cheap servers.
