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I absolutely love this series. I have three micro dells running right now as servers for various projects. These are especially great if you need a pi but can't stomach the cost for its performance.
Watched the video, looks really interesting. I'm not super knowledgeable about hardware, beyond my main computer for my work (graphics) being a Hackintosh that I built myself.
I thought Pi's were very cheap, and the video mentions ~$300 just for the box, and then he fills in what I can only imagine to be $$$ worth of SSDs, RAM and more. Sounds like a lot of money, is that still cheaper than a Pi? 🤔
Also, they talk about the machine being good for a "home lab" — what's that? And what type of projects are you using your machines for? 😃
So his system is newer than the systems I have. Those tiny mini micro devices generally come off corporate leases after a year or two and that’s a 12th gen Intel system, so fairly new. By contrast I’m using a Wyse 5070 from 2018. It’s only got 4 cores, 4 threads, but can take up to 32 gb of ram and SSDs. I paid $50 for my Wyse 5070s and around $100 for each with new drives and ram. At the same time the pi 4b were $125ish. Totally worth it considering they have 3x the power of the pi.
A homelab is just a machine you use to experiment with servers and services for yourself. One of my machines runs a vpn service, my dns server, ad blocking, and my home assistant server for my smart devices. My other machine is my media server for my Usenet stack and Jellyfin media server. It handles all my streaming of hard copies of tv and movies.
I have a newer machine like his that did cost about $200 but it’s going to function as my game server for valheim/terraria/etc and my NAS storage.
Thanks for the ultra detailed response! I think that covers everything 😁👍