Hey, I’m always searching a home server (already post here https://lemmy.ml/post/15083947), I was thinking about a Lenovo P500, but maybe the PSU is a bit too special… My budget around $140, will buy used parts and one of the most important thing is the power efficiency (don’t care about the peak wattage but want to stay around 50W idle and settling at about 70W when doing some work). Preferably I wouldn’t like to buy mini PCs. 😃 Thx!

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    6 months ago

    I don’t think there’s anything on the market that checks all the boxes for a $140 budget.

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      6 months ago

      The Lenovo P500 has 64gb RAM, 12 vcores for as low as $135, and it seems a bit power efficient The onlydownside is that the PSU is a bit strange (hard to find)

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        6 months ago

        It sounds like you already know what you want to buy, just fucking buy it. Why are you fishing for other people’s approval on what you spend your own money on?

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          I don’t want the people approval, just I want to know if some others alternatives exists to make sure that I start my homelab with a good setup

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        6 months ago

        Not sure where you’re shopping, but I can’t find it below $200 for 16GB of RAM.

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          6 months ago

          Searching on my “national used marketplace”, but do you have some recommandations? I don’t care about the specs mostly the power draw…

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            At that price point not really, and there is definitely going to be some tradeoffs required between power vs consumption vs price.