What's with the overkill hardware setups?

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

I wonder how easy it is to get used server racks, and how cheap they are

[echolynx@lemmy.zip]

How did you get multiple 64 GB RAM sticks that would've been ewaste?

[flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works]

I reckon the electricity is the real killer (and the noise!)

[donttreadonbigfoot@lemmy.world]

[gibson@sopuli.xyz]

Definitely the noise. Jesus Christ the noise...

[littlewonder@lemmy.world]

I want to hear from them because that's the setup I'm aiming for.

Where are you all discussing your shit so I can eavesdrop and steal ansible playbooks?

[littlewonder@lemmy.world]

Playing Doom.

[threeme2189@sh.itjust.works]

As it's obsolete server hardware, I'm guessing each one has a bunch of low capacity ram sticks in it. And they're probably not the regular consumer grade stuff, but some other spec.

[stefenauris@pawb.social]

Sometimes it's fun to go nuts!

[utopiah@lemmy.world]

Wow look at Mr FancyPants over there, your server has a screen, I just got something (RPi) the size of a matchbox! /s

[gofsckyourself@lemmy.world]

An experiment because someone once thought "you know what would be better than two oscilloscopes?"

[amon@lemmy.world]

Don't even have 256G installed in that thing

[amon@lemmy.world]

I never received the battery

[amon@lemmy.world]

Why? Wouldn't the VMs add extra complexity? Couldn't you just run the containers on the machine?

[amon@lemmy.world]

Sorry to tell you I never had a battery

[couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I found one on craigslist. Half rack fully enclosed with door on front and back for $200. Had an UPS in the bottom that didn't work... it just needed new batteries lol.

Have a truck on hand to pick up and you can find a bargain.

[amon@lemmy.world]

Get a few scrap hdds and fit them in or idk wire the sata cables out of the case?

Then create a raid 0+1 configuration and you now have a couple tb of redundant storage.

Bonus points if you can get even more hdds (use usb adapters maybe?)

[amon@lemmy.world]

this is also my work machine and i sleep to the fans whirring

[teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I just have an old laptop with a tui screen saver on it to prevent burn

also, the ssd doesn't work with linux so i have to put the os on a usb stick

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

I can probably 3d print something to hold the hdd's and get a cheap pcie sata card. If u got any recommendations for where to get some cheap drives lmk.