The Dirt Cheap Server Build

This is a good one. I show you how to build a full fat server without breaking the bank.
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[@zaori2785]

I don't care, but i watch all of his videos because of his character. Please make more Thinkpad-Videos :D

[@woodant1981]

Saw the title "forget new laptops buy a ThinkPad" and said to myself, this man and I obviously think that same way then I saw the Proliant server so I subscribed!

[@remke5137]

Legend says he will return

[@HK-nl2up]

Do more videos. You rock . Greetings form Egypt 🇪🇬

[@nimish891]

Thank you so much for this. I was thinking about making a server but was worried about the cost. This helped me. Thank you

[@Alec9821]

Proliants make the best homelab servers by far. They are crazy quiet compared to alternatives (cough cough Dell) and pretty low power draw at idle. Also they’re cheap, but what servers aren’t nowadays. I go for the dl380 g6 or g8. G6 crazy quiet, more than my PC. G8 can hold some pretty crazy specs for the price. For £200 I built a 40 core 384GB ram beast. Servers are the untapped oilfield for processing power

[@beng5395]

you’re a funny guy, i love the videos. i feel like we’d get along as friends! i run servers off a macbook with ubuntu installed on it, so currently searching for a more... palatable solution.

[@AcmePhoto]

I'd love to see a video on TruNAS (formerly freeNAS) or similar open source storage software.

[@boefercd]

good and funny

[@Firetech2004]

I’m your 350th subscriber!

[@jat1668]

Great video.

[@alexfletcher8465]

Great character

[@alexfletcher8465]

Not as in your playing a character but have a great character

[@cuboid5513]

I'm subscribe 153

[@Froggie92]

three weeks in a row!

[@trajectoryunown]

"Don't buy used drives." Yeah right. Almost ALL of my drives are used. I have only ever bought a single new one in my life, a 120gb TCSunbow. The only reason I bought that is because it was cheaper than buying a used 2.5in SSD. I just recently bought 12x 1TB SAS drives for $70 and am on the search for a home server. I have 3 used drives in my main pc and another 3 that all run without issue. Out of every computer part, the drives, especially HDD, and RAM are practically the same used as they are new in my experience. If only used RAM didn't cost the same as new in many cases then I would exclusively buy used for that as well. Only way I'm buying a new drive is if I have at least a couple thousand dollars of excess cash and am building a brand new rig. Aside from that, great video. I really appreciate you listing specific models instead of lines of products.

[@samasady742]

626 th subscriber

[@kshitizprajapati694]

Is your nas server's video finished?

[@calvinpryor]

no links ? 😞

[@kirknotfound1994]

600 th subcribers

[@pandroidbittermoon7277]

How much current is it going to suck? I would not use it, espacially not 24/7. Raspi dont have enought throuthput for example to stream something. You can buy pretty good out of the Box nas solutions nowadays or try a Fritzbox router solution. Or for the ones who like tinkering, I use a ITX Kabini build as a Homeserver. It works flawless for my workloads (not 4K) and (without that many harddisks) it uses roughly more than a Raspi4 if fired with a picoPSU. Only drawback is the small single channel RAM if you are running to many applications. A real server is also to noisy at home I think. In some years we will get nice used cheap Ryzen GPUs. If I had to buy something today I would look for a HP proliant microserver. Nice if you want to play with a Hardwareraid but since ZFS, somehow obsolete. If you want a real webserver better rent a virtual server. The Ebay shopping tricks are nice.

[@menkveld3565]

Dunno if my comment is still relevant though. But i fanmodded mine and its dead silent. Either way, mine was using 70watts on full idle on ubuntu server. I was running a single nvme ssd and an x5675. It was heavily power optimized (hard drive bay unplugged, powertop, aggressive c state etc etc). With mc running in the background it would stay at 80-90 watts

[@dreamstannumber4730]

“weekly”

[@codesilver1054]

My server I bought for 5 dollars needs new hard drives