I just buy refurbished spinners that are enterprise.
Exos. Ultrastars usually. I’ve had not problems and they are cheap as chips.
hodak2
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My server runs a LOT of things. Including numerous crypto nodes. So it is not a total loss.
Plus I do love all the room for activities and use it constantly for making videos on YouTube.
I forgot there is also a gtx 1650 in there as well.
But honestly. I’m fairly sure the majority of the power draw is the 4 CPU’s.
96 cores and 192 threads on older architectures was a bit of a power suck. If I had it all to do over again I would for sure have gotten an epyc chip instead.
I have an r930.
With 4x e7-8890 v4’s. 9ssd’s 2x SAS drives 4x m.2 drives on a pcie card 512gb of ram across 32 ram sticks
Pulls about 400w like all the time even at idle.
Made an entire video about how to do this with your pihole and unbound.
As other said. If you want to see if you can. Yes fun go for it.
Don’t use it for anything important. And know that your ISP will very likely have that port blocked already. And if you call them to ask them to unblock it they are unlikely to be willing to.
This is to prevent scammers and spammers.
Also. Know that even if you were able to. Getting other mail servers to not instantly junk your mail is actually quite difficult or impossible. So your emails would always land in spam, be outright blocked, or be in junk.