Hello folks a wild Dell optiplex 320 appeared to me for $38,00.
Core 2 duo processor 4gb RAM (which I can easily upgrade) 160gb HD (which I’ll certainly change for a 1TB SSD
I would use It as a file server, maybe with nextcloud. It is Just for myself maybe S.O.
What’s your toughts on It? Pass or get?
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$38 is great. I’d wager if a raspberry pi can do it, so can this machine. A pi can run Nextcloud and some other services together just fine.
Yep, it will do it. Better than a Pi, also those CPUs are somehow very decent at virtualization.
Definitely upgrade the RAM. Also get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS or something so you can tolerate a failure. And keep backups too, if you can’t afford to lose data.
get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS
Why do you think OP needs high availability?
In case of disk failure, simply redeploy and restore backups. Having an automated and fast redeployment procedure (and working backups) is a must-have, disk fault tolerance is not, IMHO (unless you have specific requirements).
I don’t think OP has backups.
Having one, the other, or both depends on how sure you need to be about recovery, and whether you care about it being available until recovery.
I would defiantly not recommend you buying this. If you can you should get a ARM based SOC with sata drives. Its probably going to a bit more expensive but it will be way faster and efficient.
Another doubt of mine is about power consumption, any thoughts on it too?
It’s not worth more than $5
3800 is way overpaying
OP is European. $38,00 is how Americans would write $38.00
OP is saying the cost is 38 dollars.
Ah, that makes sense
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters PSU Power Supply Unit RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
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