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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Does nobody else cobble together home servers with spare parts any more?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    yep i do, amd phenom x6 with 8gb of ram is still rocking!

    but not for long, i have too many services for the ram and it swaps too much.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A cheap used office computer with a good CPU and decent RAM can far exceed the power of a Pi. That's been my strategy. I just Frankenstein it a bit with leftover parts from my gaming computer and load it up with disks.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Mine is a server I got for free because the person I got it from didn't want it anymore as he was going to something more power efficient

    Mine's running dual Xeons with 192GB of RAM

    Edit: I really do need to upgrade it to something less power hungry though

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I do this. Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi. When I first started doing home server stuff, I had the option between an Athlon XP and a raspberry pi and the Athlon XP delivered better performance (I tried both).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi

    A PC drawing 150 watts will burn through $225+ in electricity a year. The raspberry pi maxes out at like 6 watts.

    RPi is the best performance to operating cost you are going to find if you don't need more juice for high intensity stuff (transcoding, etc)

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well yeah. I do, out of necessity. I can't justify buying a pi yet. Someday I hope to.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I bought a couple Raspis before they even came out, and they're handy for certain applications, but just can't really stand up to the task for whole home server needs.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I have a RPi1B that runs Pihole just fine, and I have a RPi4 that runs a bunch of services fine (plug in a SSD, don't use a SD card).

    But if you're hoping to do a photo server or run a media centre... nah. Rpis are very power efficient, but for media you really need something that's gonna suck more power.

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