Hello folks a wild Dell optiplex 320 appeared to me for $38,00.
Core 2 duo processor 4gb RAM (which I can easily upgrade) 160gb HD (which I’ll certainly change for a 1TB SSD
I would use It as a file server, maybe with nextcloud. It is Just for myself maybe S.O.
What’s your toughts on It? Pass or get?
$38 is great. I’d wager if a raspberry pi can do it, so can this machine. A pi can run Nextcloud and some other services together just fine.
Just used the default sqlite3 database. Was it slow because of the database?
3800 is way overpaying
OP is European. $38,00 is how Americans would write $38.00
OP is saying the cost is 38 dollars.
Yep, it will do it. Better than a Pi, also those CPUs are somehow very decent at virtualization.
Definitely upgrade the RAM. Also get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS or something so you can tolerate a failure. And keep backups too, if you can’t afford to lose data.
get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS
Why do you think OP needs high availability?
In case of disk failure, simply redeploy and restore backups. Having an automated and fast redeployment procedure (and working backups) is a must-have, disk fault tolerance is not, IMHO (unless you have specific requirements).
Another doubt of mine is about power consumption, any thoughts on it too?
