Tom Browder wrote: > I am looking for a commercial grade server (for home use) to replace my > remote ones. I am looking at Dell's site and an almost-empty chassis with a > low-end Intel, 1 TB SATA, and 8 Gb ECC RAM is in the $800 ball park. It > looks very upgradeable. > > Anyone have any suggestions on whether to buy or not? I would add at least > two 1 Tb SSD from Crucial to it.
My experience with Dell and HP is that they produce high quality machines with an excessive number of proprietary parts, that will bite you as a home user. If you have sufficient manual dexterity or a knowledgeable friend, I would highly recommend building your own server. If you need rackmount, rackmount cases are available. If you don't, sturdy quiet large-desktop cases are much cheaper. There's a lot to be said for using $60 power supplies instead of $200 power supplies. For $800, I put together this for you: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rrF2mr which gets you a nice Ryzen 5600G (6 cores, 12 threads), 32GB of RAM, a 1 TB NVMe SSD, and a good, quiet case. And every single thing in it is replaceable or upgradeable with off-the-shelf components. -dsr-
