Home Server Hardware Round-Up

Missed all of our other videos about home servers? No worries, this video will give you a nice taste of all the hardware! But uh, maybe go watch the other videos too yeah?

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[Nec]

Can confirm that having a 42U rack in your home does increase those digits on the electric bill. But that's literally the price to pay for being a data hoarder.

[questionablecommands]

1:08 Home-lab pro tip: 37U racks will roll through most standard doors, making moving a lot easier.

[liamfoneill]

I run my old 6700k machine as a home server and couldn't be happier with it. I found that running all my services as Docker containers vs VMs was much less overhead and the machine is cool, quiet and fairly sippy on the wattage. It's running about 20 different services including Plex without breaking a sweat. I'll upgrade....eventually.

[chainsaw]

Oh boy that M.2 to 2.5G nic is perfect for turning my old Thinclient into a Pfsense router. Thankyou L1Techs

[VRLunatic]

This was like a superior version of QVC for computer hardware nerds. Awesome work as always!

[MultiKokonutz]

Pci-e bifurcation is a godsend. Suddenly a mini-itx motherboard is more flexible than a full-atx. On a server-type build, I'd much rather have many pci-e at 4x or 8x than a single 16x

[sjukfan]

Luckily I have a strict "no rack mounted computers at home" policy, or I'd have a 10 core PowerPC server, and now a 8 core Sparc T4-1 server. It should be easier to put server motherboards in cases with fans that don't sound like a fighter jet.

[BobBobson]

The power savings of Ryzen is fantastic. I upgraded from a T7500 with dual X5687s to a 5600x and it's been incredible. No more max system draw of 500W.

[linkdude]

Thanks for being you, Wendell. Everyone really likes you, and you're just great.

[twtch]

This comment shall serve as the official petition for Wendel to permanently wear a cowboy hat for an indefinite period going forward.

[jacobnoori]

More server content please! Maybe you can advance into homelab level hardware next video?

[BikingWIthPanda]

i'm off grid on solar and the low-power Celeron J4125 system uses about 3 watts at idle. systems like this are invaluable and I would love more insight from your beautiful mind on the subject.

[Prometheus]

Thanks for the video, Wendell. I built a home server in 2020 with the i3 10100 and it was really surprising how powerful, inexpensive and efficient it ended up being (30-ish watt idle before HDDs). It was also nice during the height of c-word that I could just walk into my local computer shop and grab one off the shelf, while AMD product was borderline non-existent. Its looking like the i3 has been an underappreciated value king for at least the past few generations.

[Chris_miller]

The AMD 5600G and B550 motherboards will idle at around 15W. The G series processors don’t have the I/O die; it’s a monolithic chip. It runs with a lower power as a result.

[caseyhefner]

I have that same model of Supermicro server that I saved from EWaste. 4cores. 16gb ram, 16tb usable storage. 500gb Cache.
Been running great for over a year.

[thestrykernet]

Thanks for covering power consumption as that's one thing I'm really looking for as I consider replacing my SNB based Xeon server box.

Quick note: the W680 lists the i5-12500+, and on Ark the i5-12500 and above shows ECC support, but everything below it doesn't.

[zone]

Running my home server with ECC Ram & raid controller & GPU passthrough on AMD 4750G platform. It's amazing.
Way better than those enterprise antiques I've been worked with.

[dev]

My PM friend at work sold me a Dell R510 with 96GB RAM and 2 TB for $100. It has helped immensely in learning different IT tools.

[chromerims]

3:52 -- Yes, dual NICs to ease the glidepath to virtualization.
Great video 👍
Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.

[slim]

Power consumption has become a real concern. Always looking to reduce HDD power consumption