I have a few of these pc's but i have no idea what to do with it. One runs my home assistant but i could run that on my other server with truenas...
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I have the same question. We are about to sunset about 20 of these at work. I could take them but would have no clue what to do with them. I have zero interest in learning Kubernetes as the network I sysadmin for is so dirt simple as far as servers go. VMWare cluster maybe? Proxmox cluster?
Proxmox cluster. And you can run all your services in LXC containers instead. And not have to bother with docker? And have cetralized storage to your NAS?
Lucky you. These are fun machines!
Honestly those pre-Ryzen AMD chips are shit, power hungry and not powerful at all.
Yeah they aren't the most powerful chips, but it will work for what i need and i don't pay for power here, so honestly it's fine for me
Had the same at my dorm room. After a while the university started to measure the consumption of every flat and we got a separated bill. Suddenly everybody removed their second fridge (which was usually only for beer). Sad times
I lived in a dorm room at uni. And we didn’t pay for electricity in the common areas. One christmas they turned off the heating for some reson. I got so frustrated I turned on the ovens in the kitchen and opened them up to heat the kitchen/living area. Which worked. But it was probably not cheap for them after a few days :)
Is there a good way to slim down the amount / volume of power bricks laying around?
Bigger powerbricks with splitters perhaps?
I have been living under a rock lately. Is this the new homelab meta, building a k8s cluster of mini PCs?
Honestly I have no clue why you'd need a cluster at home either. But I guess it's fun to tinker? A raspberry pi cluster would be cheaper though and have the same result.
The fact Pi prices have been so high is what has driven everyone down the mini pc route. Cheaper, more expandable and more performant.
Cheaper*
* If you live in a cheap used tech market area