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Of course. But there are situations of people posting about some very old stuff, that even for free or for tinkering, wouldn’t be good. We are talking about vintage stuff, maybe good if you want to make an old homeland, to run just old stuff. What can I say in those situations other than that.
If someone asks for advice before buying, no problems, there are already people asking for those and we are mostly polite about those, saying why an old server wouldn’t be the best solution.
But for someone that already has one, and post of it, I can only make some satire about it. We are talking about vintage stuff. And, I need to admit, I’m the first to love that old stuff, but I would compliment someone if it posts it on a vintage sub, but on Homelab we need working stuff, with real benefits, it’s a different manner.
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What can I say to someone that gets an OLD IBM with a dual socket 4 cores CPU, with 2 GB of ram and thinks he hit a jackpot, for 100€, with a system that idles at 200W and has the power of an i3 first gen.
Of course it’s a heater, or a door stop, what other things you can do with that system.
Would be better if those people maybe posted before buying those systems, for shopping suggestions. That’s a topic. Not your complaints.
RPI zero? Without Ethernet ports? How? Just that is enough of a deal. Without thinking about the cpu power and the fact that pfsense, the free version, doesn’t work on arm.
Not x86. I think this answer all questions.
That’s a nice heater! And a very good door stop. Nice catch.
Get a Synology NAS. A 4 bay if you have money, avoid the one with ARM CPU, get one with an Intel CPU.
You didn’t say where you live and what budget you have. What solution do you want to plan, what HW etc. So I assume you live in Europe, amazon.de, going shuking, you would need 10x18TB drives for 292€ each, total 2920€. Then you can arrange it on RAID 5 and get 162TB, RAID 6 and get 144TB, or unRaid with double parity and get 144TB.
I just Google on amazon.de and do some basic math. It didn’t take too much.
That’s a good way to kill a disk. Don’t use NTFS and you are fine. Go for Btrfs and similar.