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i'm temped to buy the used enterprise equipment but in the end, i ended up buying small Intel NUC machines for my homelab.

power consumption of these NUCs is almost negligible while one Dell R620 with dual CPU takes 150-200W at idle.

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I looked at NUCs and settled for a used ThinkPad. Integrated keyboard, monitor, mouse and battery, and potentially even more judicious with power consumption, but oomphy enough to run image recognition on my photo collection while hosting lots of dockers. Backup to a local NAS that I only switch on during the backup window, and backup remotely to backblaze B2.

i bought used NUCs too. new one cost way too much :D

Same for me. I can fit two Intel NUCs under my monitor stand - one a headless server, another the primary input on the monitor - and can accomplish a decent amount with 16 GB RAM (on an older generation NUC) and two internal drives.

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