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If you had to start your homelab from scratch...

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For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.

What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you’ve done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?

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Sylvester88@alien.topB
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3 optiplex 7040s micros - put 32gb ram and a 2tb ssd in each and call it a day

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Howkins99_@alien.topB
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Legit same

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sqomoa@alien.topB
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I already have one 7040 Micro and I really wish I had two more for this exactly. Just cluster those puppies.

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Ornias1993@alien.topB
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An am4 mobo+4500 = <150 euros. Cheap atx case + psu = 75 Leaves you 75 for ram to price-match those 7040 with lots more expandability and ecc support.

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Sylvester88@alien.topB
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I like the optiplex micros because they’re small

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SR_Lut3t1um@alien.topB
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I figure you need to buy networking equipment too?

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j0hnp0s@alien.topB
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I would only add a single SFF so that I can fit a couple of big 3.5 disks for my backup and data hoarding needs.

Other than that, yeah… Micro/tiny/micro is the way

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poldertrash@alien.topB
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This is what I did with 3060s. Eventually added a 4th, because… well… 3 is less than 4 and I had an empty slot in my rack.

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Ezurek@alien.topB
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Would you also recommend 7050 if those are available?

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